Books published by publisher Steven E. Burt

Grand Prize Winner of the 2015 Florida Book Festival Award, 2015 Florida Authors and Publishers Award, 2014 New England Book Festival Best Young Adult Book, and 2014 Mom's Choice Award for Young Adults.SPRING BREAK IN FLORIDA IS A BLAST—FOR THE FREEKS IT'S A KILLER Five of the psychic teens are going to Florida over spring break. They can stay with fellow FreeK Caroline and their mentors Bando, Rose, and Twait. But somebody wants them to stay home and will use fire, rattlesnakes, and more to keep them away. As they prepare to leave New England, Charlie has one of his dreams—a murder and kidnapping—only it's happening in real time in the Sunshine State. The dead man is a midget who worked with Twait, Bando, and Rose in their sideshow days. And that's just the first murder. The trail will take the FreeKs from Cassadaga (psychic medium capital of the world) to Gibsonton (Freaktown USA, America's Weirdest Town)—with side trips to The Villages (Florida's Friendliest Hometown unless somebody's out to kill you) and Ocala (Horse Capital of the World)—and finally to the capital, Tallahassee. What the teens will remember about FreeK Week won't be their visit to Daytona Beach or the airboat ride in the gator swamps—it'll be sharing their gifts, working together, and fighting to survive. Winner of 2014 Mom's Choice Award gold medal for young adult fiction, Grand Prize WInner 2015 Florida Book Festival, and Best Y.A. Book at the New England Book Festival.

This 2003 lite-horror collection of 15 weird tales was a 2003 Bram Stoker Award finalist in the Young Readers category, eventually losing to Harry Potter. Even Odder is #2 in the four-book Stories to Chill the Heart series by Steve Burt, whose FreeKs psychic teen detectives series recently won the Florida Book Festival grand prize and 4 Mom's Choice Awards. The other 3 books in the Stories to Chill the Heart series are Odd Lot, Oddest Yet, and Wicked Odd.

What do you call a deer with no eyes? No i-deer. What do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs? Still, no i-deer.Over 150 dumb jokes for kids from retired minister Steve Burt, who is the author of dozens of award-winning teen mysteries and ghost story collections, a 4-time Mom's Choice Award winner. The sequel, Second Worst Joke Book, is due out in October 2016.

From 4-time Mom's Choice Award winner Steve Burt and veteran middle-school teacher Jolyn Joslin comes this exciting book for kids that's also a fabulous tool for parents, grandparents, and teachers: 13 ghost stories and weird tales to help kids read, learn, and write their own stuff. These are the thought-provoking stories young readers love. A boy approaches an old woman tending a grave garden. On a dare a brother and sister enter a bone yard on Halloween to free a sea captain's earthbound spirit. A pup returns to life after 50 years in a tomb. Four school kids battle a giant worm that crosses from its tunnel into theirs. Two girls discover a puppet shop run by a puppet. A drowned corpse pursues six summer campers who have taken the war canoe out for a late-night ride. Each story has discussion questions followed by a writing prompt to help turn readers into writers. Works well with adult supervision or with self-directed students. And the stories are perfect for teachers to use as 15-minute activities at the end of the day.

DON'T READ THIS BOOK AFTER SUNDOWN! In any storytelling, but especially in fantasy/horror, there is one thing that is critically important if you want to have your toenails curl and leave holes in your bedspread from gripping it convulsively when reading before sleep. It is that you have to care about the characters or else who cares what happens to them. STEVE BURT IS A MASTER AT CREATING REAL FOLKS, FOLKS YOU LIKE, FOLKS YOU WANT TO SCREAM AT SO THEY DON'T GO INTO THAT DARK ROOM ALONE. Couple that with an imagination that won't quit and a storytelling style that grabs you by the shirt front and pulls you in, and you'd better fasten your seat belt before reading Odd Lot. Because you're in for a heck of a ride!

John Flynn's Banshee is a single short story excerpted from Bram Stoker Award-winner Steve Burt's 13-story collection, Wicked Strange, which was named Best Anthology at the 2015 New England Book Festival Awards. This is called a punchline horror story and builds to the final line like a sick joke. It's about a family in Nashua, New Hampshire who spot a hearse from hell cruising their neighborhood in search of a soul. Dr. Burt also writes the award-winning FreeKs psychic teen detectives series.

Winner of a New England Book Festival Award for Y.A. Fiction. From Bram Stoker Award winner and 4-time Mom's Choice Award winner Steve Burt and veteran educator Jolyn Joslin comes this exciting collection for kids that's also a fabulous tool for parents, grandparents, and teachers: 13 ghost stories and weird tales to help kids read, learn, and write their own stuff. These are the imaginative, thought-provoking stories kids love. Questions after each story, plus a writing idea. Answers in back.

Grand prize winner of the 2014 Florida Book Festival Award (and category winner for Young Adult Fiction), 2015 Florida Authors & Publishers Award silver, 2014 Mom's Choice Award gold for Young Adults, Best Y.A. Fiction at the New England Book Festival, runner-up for Best Young Adult Fiction at the Halloween Book Festival Awards. Five of the psychic teens are going to Florida over spring break. They can stay with fellow FreeK Caroline and their mentors Bando, Rose, and Twait. But somebody wants them to stay home and will use fire, rattlesnakes, and more to keep them away. As they prepare to leave New England, Charlie has one of his dreams—a murder and kidnapping—only it’s happening in real time in the Sunshine State. The dead man is a midget who worked with Twait, Bando, and Rose in their sideshow days. And that’s just the first murder.The trail will take the FreeKs from Cassadaga (psychic medium capital of the world) to Gibsonton (Freaktown USA, America’s Weirdest Town)—with side trips to The Villages (Florida’s Friendliest Hometown, unless somebody’s out to kill you) and Ocala (Horse Capital of the World)—and finally to the capital, Tallahassee. What the teens will remember about FreeK Week won’t be their visit to Daytona Beach or the airboat ride in the gator swamps—it’ll be sharing their gifts, working together, and fighting to survive. Also available as Kindle ebook and Audible audio book read y Michael Piotrasch.

Award-winning short horror story, one of 13 excerpted from Bram Stoker Award winner Steve Burt's collection, Wicked Strange, which was named Best Anthology at the 2015 New England Book Festival. Burt's FreeKs series about psychic teen detectives won 30 awards and includes FreeK Camp, FreeK Show, and FreeK Week (Florida Book Festival grand prize winner).

This 18-page horror short story from Bram Stoker Award winner Steve Burt is excerpted from his collection, Wicked Strange, which was named Best Anthology at the 2015 New England Book Festival. A one-eyed man receives a message along with his father's ashes and glass eye, motivating him to travel to a bizarre Maine backwater in search of his roots and his future. The collection, Wicked Strange, is available in paperback, e-book, and audiobook, read by Michael Piotrasch. Burt is also the author of the award-winning FreeKs psychic teen detectives series (print, ebook, and audio), which won the 2015 Florida Book Festival grand prize.