Jake Burt crafts engaging middle-grade fiction, drawing from his experience as a 5th-grade teacher. His writing is characterized by an insatiable curiosity, a willingness to dive deep into fascinating subjects much like exploring a rabbit hole. This approach brings a unique perspective and understanding to his stories for young readers. His work promises adventures that capture the imagination and explore the boundless curiosity of childhood.
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.