Books published by publisher Steven E. Burt

Grand Prize Winner, 2019 New York Book Festival Awards2019 Mom's Choice Awards gold medalistFrom Bram Stoker Award-winning author Steve Burt comes a new novel for adults and teens.Could Things Get Any Weirder in Wells, Maine?Working at Annie's Book Stop, Keegan has read plenty of mysteries. But she's never been part of one. Until now.It starts when someone—or some THING—burglarizes a different local bookstore, Toil & Trouble, stealing an obscure book of little interest except possibly to a collector.It gets stranger when someone appearing to be a hunchbacked nun comes to Annie's Book Stop to order a reprint of the same book—and two books on local graveyards! But before they can be picked up, a robed and hooded figure breaks into Annie's after hours and rifles through the special-orders shelf. Is there more to this book than meets the eye?More questions come up, but the most important one is: Can Keegan survive long enough to unravel the big secrets of her small town?

Now in print, ebook, and downloadable audio book. Winner of the 2010 Mom's Choice Award for excellence in family-friendly literature, the Moonbeam Children's Book Award silver, the Hollywood, NY, London, Paris, San Francisco, and New England Book Festival Awards, the 2010 and 2011 Beach Book Festival golds, and several others.An Adventure That's Out of This World. And In It. Free Camp, which somehow became known as FreeK Camp, is for special kids. But just how special most people will never know. Two vans are on their way to the camp in rural Maine, their passengers just starting to get acquainted. One van makes it. The other mysteriously disappears. Now each group of kids must bond together to discover and use their paranormal and psychic powers. The lives of one group literally depend on it. Part mystery thriller, part detective story, part sci-fi, FreeK Camp is all hold-your-breath-I-didn't-see-that-coming adventure. From Bram Stoker winner Steve Burt. Book #2 is FreeK Show, Book #3 is FreeK Week.

2012 Mom's Choice Award Winner for excellence in family-friendly literature, plus London, Paris, NY, Hollywood, Halloween, and New England Book Festival Awards.When This Camp’s In Session, It’s Not Just Fun & Games. Sometimes, It’s Murder.The FreeKs are back so, naturally, trouble’s not far behind. Several of the kids have returned – a year older and more adept with their paranormal skills. There’s also a hot new guy, Damon. When he sees Atlanta, with her streaked hair and body piercings, you don’t have to be psychic to feel the electricity. Just as the group gathers, a body is discovered under bizarre circumstances. It looks like suicide, but when the ghosts from last year show up with a strange ethereal companion, the FreeKs and their adult mentors have to conclude it’s a murder. And they’re being drawn into it. It’s out of the frying pan into the fire when the murderer targets two at FreeK Camp for abduction and murder. But why these two? As the victims are taken, new talents and an assist from an unexpected ally all come into play. But the sun is coming up and time is running out. This is the second in a series of three (FreeK Week is #3 in the series and has been named Grand Prize Winner at the 2015 Florida Book Festival). Now available in print, ebook, and audio book read by actress Melissa Epp.

For kids who like ghosts stories and weird tales. And as a bonus, reading comprehension and discussion questions after each of the 13 stories, plus writing challenges for those who want to write their own stories. From 4-time Mom's Choice Award winner Steve Burt, who writes the FreeKs paranormal teen detective thrillers, and Jolyn Joslin, retired middle-school teacher. Answers in back of book for parents, grandparents, and teachers.

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.

From Bram Stoker Award-winner Steve Burt, this nine-story collection won a silver Benjamin Franklin Award for Mystery/Suspense. Don't listen to 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 you listen 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 listening to Odd Lot. Because you're in for a heck of a ride!