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Winner of the 2012 Mom's Choice Award, the 2012 Halloween Book Festival Award, and 6 others. 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. Available in print, ebook, and audio book read by actress Melissa Epp.

Winner of the 2010 Mom's Choice Award, Moonbeam Children's Book Award, and the London, Paris, NY, Hollywood, San Francisco, and New England Book Awards for Young Adults.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 rustic New England, 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. Available in print, ebook, and audio book read by actress Melissa Epp.

BEST SPIRITUAL BOOK, 2021 NEW ENGLAND BOOK FESTIVAL AWARDS.In 2001, during an interview on a Connecticut radio station, Steve Burt read "Tina's Tender Touch," a story he had published in Mature Living Magazine. The phones lit up, listeners begging for more. So he read "The Thumb Island Elephants," about a coastal community in a 1909 Christmas Eve snowstorm that had to come together to rescue an circus elephant and her baby who were trapped in an overturned circus wagon on the railroad tracks. Sales of the Rev. Dr. Burt's book, A Christmas Dozen, went through the roof, with Family Circle Magazine showcasing a Vermont story, "Nana Antonia's Christmas Wish," about a young boy and his father clashing over how to respond to a dying great-grandmother's yearning for a Christmas Eve sleigh ride. Readers loved it and Dr. Burt was invited to do a 100+ radio station tour. Then Chicken Soup for the Soul reprinted "Tina's Tender Touch." Readers laughed, cried, and shared the stories with friends, clergy, and family.Now, 20 years later, with A Christmas Dozen out of print, we're bringing back 10 of the original 12 stories as the New England Christmas Sampler. Enjoy. And share.

BEST YOUNG ADULT FICTION, 2021 New England Book Festival Awards.BEST YOUNG ADULT FICTION, 2021 Hollywood Book Festival Awards.HONORABLE MENTION for BEST YOUNG ADULT FICTION, 2021 New York Book Festival.Awards.Includes 20 of Maine's master storyteller Steve Burt's 39 weird tales reprinted from his 4 earlier award-winning collections that recently went out-of-print:: Odd Lot (2001 Benjamin Franklin Award, mystery/suspense), Even Odder (2003 Bram Stoker Award for Young Readers nominee/finalist), Oddest Yet, (2004 Bram Stoker Award for Young Readers WINNER), Wicked Odd (2005 Independent Publisher Award honorable mention).Burt is also the author of the FreeKs teen detectives thrillers (FreeK Camp, FreeK Show, FreeK Week) that won 4 Mom's Choice Awards the 2015 Florida Book Festival Grand Prize, the New York and New England Book Festival Awards for Best Teen/YA, and the Halloween and Hollywood Book Festival Awards for Best Teen. His thriller, The Bookseller's Daughter, about an ancient race of gargouilles in present-day Maine, won the 2019 New York Book Festival Grand Prize for Adult Fiction and the New England Book Festival Award for Best Y.A.. The gargouilles sequel, Protect the Queen, came out on July 1, 202

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 rail 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 by Michael Piotrasch.

2017 Florida Book Festival Award, Best Holiday Book. THIS REPLACES THE OUT-OF-PRINT 2001 bestseller, A CHRISTMAS DOZEN. Yes, you've seen these Steve Burt stories in Chicken Soup for the Soul and Family Circle, and you've heard them on the radio. They're written by the man New Englanders call the Christmas Story Pastor.For decades Rev. Steve Burt wrote stories for Christmas Candlelight Services and magazines reprinted them. In 1999 he took the clippings and started a read-aloud program for nursing homes and senior centers. Audiences laughed and cried. They asked for a book they could both use and give. Thus, A Christmas Dozen was born. On release day, a Connecticut radio station had Dr. Burt read stories on-air for four hours. The phones lit up and listeners bought 5-10 at a time, selling out the first and second printings in 50 days. The stories' power to touch hearts and souls was undeniable. Over the next year, a national radio tour reached nearly a half million more listeners. A Christmas Dozen is available as a Kindle e-book and as an Audible audio-book, but the paperback just went out of print. Yet people keep seeking the print version for gift-giving and especially for read-aloud at holiday gatherings. They love the emotional responses the stories elicit from hearers. So here's the new paperback: Christmas Soup for the Soul, a collection of the Top 10 favorites according to readers. Enjoy. Savor. And most important, Share.

This is a sermon preached by retired pastor/professor Rev. Dr. Steve Burt at the Tri-County Unitarian Universalists's service in Summerfield, Florida on April 22, 2018. There were so many requests for printed copies that it has been published in its entirety here.

LARGE PRINT EDITION. Winner of a New England Book Festival Award for young readers. From 5-time Mom's Choice Award winner Steve Burt and veteran middle-school teacher 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.