About This Book
BEST YOUNG ADULT FICTION 2023 Halloween Book Festival AwardsBEST YOUNG ADULT FICTION, 2021 New England Book Festival Awards.BEST YOUNG ADULT FICTION, 2021 Hollywood Book Festival Awards.BEST YOUNG ADULT FICTION honorable mention, 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, 2023.
