Most Popular Books by Steve Burt

Large Print Edition. Oddest Yet won the 2004 Bram Stoker Award for Young Readers, the horror genre's most coveted award. Nine weird tales from Steve Burt, who also writes the FreeKs paranormal teen detectives series that has won 4 Mom's Choice golds, the Moonbeam Children's Book Award for teens, the Florida Book Festival Grand Prize, the Florida Authors & Publishers President's Award silver, and the New England Book Award.

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.

Yes, you've seen these 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. Steve Burt's writings have won the Moonbeam Children's Book Award, the Mom's Choice Award, 3 Ray Bradbury writing prizes, a Bram Stoker Award for young readers, the Florida Book Festival grand prize, and 8 New England Book Festival Awards. He and his wife Jolyn live in Wells, Maine and The Villages, Florida.

Third in the hit Dumb Jokes for Kids series (First Worst Joke Book, Second Worst Joke Book) by 4 time Mom's Choice Award winner Steve Burt. Over 150 jokes.

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.

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.

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 2015 New England Book Festival Award for Best Anthology. Large Print Edition. You want strange? You got it. Wicked Strange, as they say in New England. Imagine looking out your window in Nashua, New Hampshire and seeing an other-worldly hearse cruising up and down the street in search of a soul. Heard about Plantation 13, the rural Maine backwater, where the males birth the babies through their eye sockets? Hey, don't pet that infected dog! It's been in that concrete wall over three decades. And what's up with those giant moths trapped in the tower of the Pemaquid Point Lighthouse? Be sure to cross the road when you go past the old witchy woman's place along the White River in Bethel, Vermont or you may run into the spirit-stealers. Spend a day with the new caretaker's apprentice at the old felons' bone yard in Augusta, Maine. You say you need your fix of New England weirdness? Well, you're guaranteed to find it here under the covers--the front and back covers--of Bram Stoker Award winner Steve Burt's latest collection: Wicked Strange.

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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 4-time Mom's Choice Award winner Steve Burt and veteran 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.