Jake Burt creëert boeiende jeugdfictie, geïnspireerd door zijn ervaring als leraar in de vijfde klas. Zijn schrijven wordt gekenmerkt door een onstilbare nieuwsgierigheid, de bereidheid om diep in fascinerende onderwerpen te duiken, vergelijkbaar met het verkennen van een konijnenhol. Deze aanpak brengt een uniek perspectief en begrip in zijn verhalen voor jonge lezers. Zijn werk belooft avonturen die de verbeelding prikkelen en de grenzeloze nieuwsgierigheid van de kindertijd verkennen.
A funny and poignant debut middle-grade novel about a foster-care girl who is placed with a family in the witness protection program, and finds that hiding in plain sight is complicated and dangerous.
From Indies Introduce and Indie Next Pick author Jake Burt comes the middle- grade story of two best friends, a magnificent plan to make money, and the hilarious (and almost fatal) consequences.
Jake Burt's Cleo Porter and the Body Electric is a futuristic middle-grade novel about a girl who lives in a hermetically sealed housing development. A woman is dying. Cleo Porter has her medicine. And no way to deliver it. Like everyone else, twelve-year-old Cleo and her parents are sealed in an apartment without windows or doors. They never leave. They never get visitors. Their food is dropped off by drones. So they’re safe. Safe from the disease that nearly wiped humans from the earth. Safe from everything. The trade-off? They’re alone. Thus, when they receive a package clearly meant for someone else--a package containing a substance critical for a stranger’s survival--Cleo is stuck. As a surgeon-in-training, she knows the clock is ticking. But people don’t leave their units. Not ever. Until now.
A friendship novel about bullying, from Jake Burt, the author of Greetings from Witness Protection!
In this action-packed mystery from award-winning author Jake Burt, Copper Inskeep holds Windydown Vale's deepest and darkest secret: he is the ghoul that haunts the Vale, donning a gruesome costume to scare travelers and townsfolk away from the dangers of the surrounding swamps. When a terrified girl claims she and her father were attacked by a creature - one that could not have been Copper - it threatens not just Copper's secret, but the fate of all Windydown.