New Releases by Steve Burt

Kids on the Case is a collection of three chapter-book novels for ages 6-12 from the award-winning Recipe for Adventure series. This collection includes Ghost Pets, Kite Boy, and Cornstalkers.

Cornstalkers is the first chapbook for 6-10 year-olds in the Recipe for Adventure series by Steve Burt, who is a 2004 Bram Stoker Award winner for Young Readers and 5-time Mom''s Choice Award winner. (Note: Steve''s 2003 Bram Stoker Nominee was a final five selection in a field won by Harry Potter.) Second and third books are Kite Boy and Ghost Pets. After receiving a Recipe for Adventure kit in the mail while summering at Gram''s house in rural Maine''s farm country, siblings Krista and Layton and their grandmother encounter a living scarecrow who uses seven super-powered corn kernels to raise an army of cornstalk people. The Recipe kit gives them tools to help them take on the scarecrow and his followers. But taking them on may also mean helping them accomplish their goal. Dr. Burt also writes the Dumb Jokes for Kids series and the FreeKs teen mystery series (FreeK Camp, FreeK Show, FreeK Week).

From Bram Stoker Award winner Steve Burt, sequel to The Bookseller''s Daughter A wounded Luna and two of her female friends have risked their lives bucking their ancient race''s patriarchal system that kills female heirs to the throne at birth. Now, after hatching three babies in Wells--two females and a male--they are hding in the Allagash Wilderness west of Mt. Katahdin. They must battle harsh weather, infections, starvation, wild animals, trigger-happy humans, Luna''s arch-enemy Faucon, and the king''s assassins. But with the help of six humans including the bookseller Maryann, her daughter Keegan, and their friends, there''s hope. Protect the Queen is the exciting, long-awaited sequel to the 2019 regional bestseller, The Bookseller''s Daughter, which won the New York Book Festival grand prize for adults and the 2019 Mom''s Choice gold medal for teens

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.

Seven weird Maine tales by Bram Stoker Award-winner Steve Burt and seven drawings by illustrator Hanah Cincotta.

Loved by millions who heard this funny and moving short story read on radio by Steve Burt, the retired minister known as The Christmas Story Pastor. On Christmas Eve 1909, a Barnum & Bailey circus wagon carrying elephants overturns at a railroad crossing in Stonington, Connecticut, forcing a town to come together to save the mother elephant and baby.

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.

Q: What do you call a woman with a bad leg? A: Eileen. Q: What do you call a woman with a wooden leg? A: Peg Q: Where do Eileen and Peg work? A: I-Hop. Fourth in Steve Burt''s Dumb Jokes for Kids series (First Worst, Second Worst, Third Worst Joke Books).

Sequel to the bestselling First Worst Joke Book in Steve Burt''s Dumb Jokes for Kids series. Over 175 dumb jokes and riddles for kids.

A collection of 3 previously published novellas featuring Vermont reporters Devaney and Hoag, who investigate unusual tips in the Upper Connecticut River Valley near Norwich, Vermont.

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!

13 weird tales and ghost stories of New England from Bram Stoker Award winner Steve Burt. Excerpted from the author''s Stories to Chill the Heart series of 39 stories: Odd Lot (Benjamin Franklin Award winner), Even Odder (Bram Stoker Nominee), Oddest Yet (Bram Stoker winner), Wicked Odd (Ippy Award). Also available in audiobook and ebook.

Grand prize winner of the 2014 Florida Book Festival Award (and category winner for Young Adult Fiction), 2014 Mom''s Choice Award gold for Young Adults, Best Y.A. Fiction at the New England Book Festival. 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 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.

2004 Bram Stoker Award winner for Young Readers, from Ray Bradbury Award winner and Mom''s Choice triple gold medalist Steve Burt. Nine more Creepers for Classrooms, Campfires & Car Trips. Sequel to Odd Lot: Stories to Chill the Heart (Ben Franklin Award silver for Best Mystery/Suspense Book) and Even Odder: More Stories to Chill the Heart (Nominee/Finalist for 2003 Bram Stoker Award for Young Readers).

The best scary stories, whether shared aloud or read under a blanket by flash-light, keep us guessing and gasping. They give us characters we can identify with, folks like us, people we want to scream at -- Don''t Go Into that Dark Room Alone! Multi-award-winner STEVE BURT''S delicious creepers do just that. They grab you by the front of the shirt and drag you along. It''s not that you can''t break free, but that you won''t -- Because You Have to See What Happens! If you''ve never ridden with Steve Burt before -- or even if you have -- Fasten Your Seatbelt; You''re in for a Heck of a Ride! Book jacket.