FreeK Week

by Steve Burt

Winner of the 2015 Florida Book Festival Grand Prize, the New England Book Festival Award, and the Mom's Choice gold.

FreeK Week is number three in the FreeKs series featuring psychic teen detectives.

Spring break in Florida is a blast - for the FreeKs it's a killer

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 a kidnapping - only it's happening in real time in the Sunshine State. The dead man is a former circus 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.

The series has now won 24 international awards, including four Mom's Choice golds, the Moonbeam Award (silver), and a host of Book Festival awards.

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First published July 18, 2014

About the author

Steve Burt's 2019 gargoyle novel, The Bookseller's Daughter, has won the NY Book Festival Grand Prize and the gold Mom's Choice Award. He is a retired minister and multi-award-winning writer who is best-known for his FreeKs psychic teen detectives series (FreeK Camp, FreeK Show, FreeK Week) and his Stories to Chill the Heart story collections (Odd Lot, Even Odder, Oddest Yet, Wicked Odd). He has won the Bram Stoker Award, several Ray Bradbury writing prizes, and the Benjamin Franklin Award, plus a bunch of book festival awards (Paris, London, NY, New England, San Francisco, Hollywood, Halloween, Beach Book Festival awards). His novel FreeK Week was named the Grand Prize winner at the 2015 Florida Book Festival Awards and the Best Y.A. at the New England Book Festival Awards; it also won the 2014 Mom's Choice Award. His latest books include Wicked Strange, Vermont Ghost Busters, Horrors, and a collection titled Vampires, Ghost, and Graveyards. He also writes inspirational books, including Unk's Fiddle and the bestseller, A Christmas Dozen, and has published stories in Family Circle, Chicken Soup for the Soul series, and others, many of which he performs on radio. Before turning to fiction he wrote numerous church-related books. His 2016 books include Publish Your Book Free: Step-by-Step Beginner's Guide to Create Space Print-on-Demand Publishing, First Worst Joke Book, Second Worst Joke Book, and Christmas Soup for the Soul: 10 Hearty Helpings.

Reviews

[Bob · Rating 1 out of 5]

this book is the third in a series involving a group of paranormally gifted teens who end up solving crimes. i read the first two and really enjoyed them. the characters were interesting and their interaction was involving. they were just light, easy reading, well written books. this third book in the series was a real disappointment. the interaction between characters was minimal. the plot was incomprehensible and fell apart in the last pages completely. i'm guessing that the loose ends of this plot will be addressed in another sequel, but i'm not going to bother reading it even if that is the case. the author lost me with this one.

[Steve Burt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Grand Prize Winner at the 2015 Florida Book Festival, also Young Adult winner. 2015 New England Book Festival Best Y.A. 2014 Mom's Choice Award for Young Adult Fiction.