Books with author Andrew Campbell

Mike’s sister Sara needs a complicated transplant surgery. Their family doesn’t have the money. School’s out, and sixth-grader Mike is now on a mission to uncover the past and save his sister by finding the lost treasure of Robber’s Roost! With the help of his best friend Haley, his teacher Mr. Parks, and his family, Mike uncovers the truth of Robber’s Roost with a lot of danger along the way. Will they find the treasure and save Sara?A contemporary fiction novel, based on actual historical events, Robber’s Roost is sure to captivate any reader with a love of adventure!

When Andrea Louise Campbell’s sister-in-law, Marcella Wagner, was run off the freeway by a hit-and-run driver, she was seven-and-a-half months pregnant. She survived—and, miraculously, the baby was born healthy. But that’s where the good news ends. Marcella was left paralyzed from the chest down. This accident was much more than just a physical and emotional tragedy. Like so many Americans—50 million, or one-sixth of the country’s population—neither Marcella nor her husband, Dave, who works for a small business, had health insurance. On the day of the accident, she was on her way to class for the nursing program through which she hoped to secure one of the few remaining jobs in the area with the promise of employer-provided insurance. Instead, the accident plunged the young family into the tangled web of means-tested social assistance. As a social policy scholar, Campbell thought she knew a lot about means-tested assistance programs. What she quickly learned was that missing from most government manuals and scholarly analyses was an understanding of how these programs actually affect the lives of the people who depend on them. Using Marcella and Dave’s situation as a case in point, she reveals their many shortcomings in Trapped in America’s Safety Net. Because American safety net programs are designed for the poor, Marcella and Dave first had to spend down their assets and drop their income to near-poverty level before qualifying for help. What’s more, to remain eligible, they will have to stay under these strictures for the rest of their lives, meaning they are barred from doing many of the things middle-class families are encouraged to do: Save for retirement. Develop an emergency fund. Take advantage of tax-free college savings. And, while Marcella and Dave’s story is tragic, the financial precariousness they endured even before the accident is all too common in America, where the prevalence of low-income work and unequal access to education have generated vast—and growing—economic inequality. The implementation of Obamacare has cut the number of uninsured and underinsured and reduced some of the disparities in coverage, but it continues to leave too many people open to tremendous risk. Behind the statistics and beyond the ideological battles are human beings whose lives are stunted by policies that purport to help them. In showing how and why this happens, Trapped in America’s Safety Net offers a way to change it.

When Andrea Louise Campbell’s sister-in-law, Marcella Wagner, was run off the freeway by a hit-and-run driver, she was seven-and-a-half months pregnant. She survived—and, miraculously, the baby was born healthy. But that’s where the good news ends. Marcella was left paralyzed from the chest down. This accident was much more than just a physical and emotional tragedy. Like so many Americans—50 million, or one-sixth of the country’s population—neither Marcella nor her husband, Dave, who works for a small business, had health insurance. On the day of the accident, she was on her way to class for the nursing program through which she hoped to secure one of the few remaining jobs in the area with the promise of employer-provided insurance. Instead, the accident plunged the young family into the tangled web of means-tested social assistance. As a social policy scholar, Campbell thought she knew a lot about means-tested assistance programs. What she quickly learned was that missing from most government manuals and scholarly analyses was an understanding of how these programs actually affect the lives of the people who depend on them. Using Marcella and Dave’s situation as a case in point, she reveals their many shortcomings in Trapped in America’s Safety Net. Because American safety net programs are designed for the poor, Marcella and Dave first had to spend down their assets and drop their income to near-poverty level before qualifying for help. What’s more, to remain eligible, they will have to stay under these strictures for the rest of their lives, meaning they are barred from doing many of the things middle-class families are encouraged to do: Save for retirement. Develop an emergency fund. Take advantage of tax-free college savings. And, while Marcella and Dave’s story is tragic, the financial precariousness they endured even before the accident is all too common in America, where the prevalence of low-income work and unequal access to education have generated vast—and growing—economic inequality. The implementation of Obamacare has cut the number of uninsured and underinsured and reduced some of the disparities in coverage, but it continues to leave too many people open to tremendous risk.Behind the statistics and beyond the ideological battles are human beings whose lives are stunted by policies that purport to help them. In showing how and why this happens, Trapped in America’s Safety Net offers a way to change it.

In Arcadia, being different is heresy. Heresy is DEATH. To survive, citizens must live, dress, and even love according to the United Council's will. Their power is absolute-until a rebel bomb ignites at a national ceremony and unites the lives of three unlikely people.When the bombing goes wrong, Nicolette Howell, a young heretic, finds herself alone and on the run, bearing secrets that Arcadia would kill for. When she's captured, she must escape, but how can she, when her best chance lies with the son of her sworn enemy?Driven by the execution of an innocent, Jacob Osgood, a United Councilor's son, hunts for the truth about the heretic movement that Arcadia has hidden. But truth could cost him the one thing he cannot stand to lose: the girl who saved his life at the bombing.Shiloh Haven, the orphaned daughter of heretics, is forced to become Arcadia's spy in a sinister plot to destroy the heretic army. She faces a terrible choice: survive or risk everything to save the boy she might just love and the rebels who are her only chance of being free.As their fates entwine, the three must answer an impossible question. WHAT WOULD YOU DIE FOR?

The mesmerizing debut novel from a new author!Every villain is the HERO of their own story...Fifteen-year old Catarina Perez wakes up in one of the city’s alleys covered in blood and lying next to the corpse of a man she has never met before. And it turns out that isn’t the strangest thing she’s going to go through this night. Within hours of waking up, her body begins to develop superhuman abilities that cause her to become faster, stronger and more agile than any person she’s ever met.But the use of these new powers brings with them a horrifying handicap: an uncontrollable desire to feast on the sweet, red nectar that is the life force of other humans. The more she uses her powers, the greater her desire to attack people.With her moral beliefs telling her that suicide is the greater sin, she tries to make peace with her need to feed on humans as a way of sustaining herself. Determined to see her affliction as a blessing and not a curse, Catarina begins to systematically hunt down the city’s drug dealers. If she has to feed, then it should be from those who deserve it most.With the hope of meeting a glorious death in battle and having her curse end, she instead becomes more powerful with each dealer she destroys. But power corrupts, and for Catarina, absolute power is bound to get somebody killed.

Fifteen-year old Catarina Perez wakes up in one of the city’s alleys covered in blood and lying next to the corpse of a man she has never met before. And it turns out that isn’t the strangest thing she’s going to go through this night. Within hours of waking up, her body begins to develop superhuman abilities that cause her to become faster, stronger and more agile than any person she’s ever met. But the use of these new powers brings with them a horrifying handicap: an uncontrollable desire to feast on the sweet, red nectar that is the life force of other humans. The more she uses her powers, the greater her desire to attack people. With her moral beliefs telling her that suicide is the greater sin, she tries to make peace with her need to feed on humans as a way of sustaining herself. Determined to see her affliction as a blessing and not a curse, Catarina begins to systematically hunt down the city’s drug dealers. If she has to feed, then it should be from those who deserve it most. With the hope of meeting a glorious death in battle and having her curse end, she instead becomes more powerful with each dealer she destroys. But power corrupts, and for Catarina, absolute power is bound to get somebody killed.

A year ago, Catarina Perez woke up in an alley covered in blood and lying only a few feet away from the corpse of a man she had never met before. And that was only the beginning of a very bad day. Since that terrifying night, Catarina has been living in an abandoned warehouse trying to accept what has happened to her: she has been infected with a strange and ancient disease. A disease that gives her an insatiable urge to drink the blood of other humans. But there are also benefits to her infection: superhuman strength, speed and senses beyond her wildest dreams. Embracing her situation, Catarina begins using her abilities to hunt down the most evil people in the city: the drug kingpins. If she has to feed on others in order to survive, then only the most deserving of her vengeance will become victims. With the help of her friend, Ren, Catarina starts dismantling the city’s powerful drug cartels one house at a time. But every dealer she removes from the street makes her disease stronger. And harder to control. Cat’s disease, her Hunger, just wants to nudge what remains of her tortured soul into the liberating embrace of the evil Darkness. And sometimes you have to embrace the evil in your life in order to accomplish the greater good.

A year ago, Catarina Perez woke up in an alley covered in blood and lying only a few feet away from the corpse of a man she had never met before. And that was only the beginning of a very bad day. Since that terrifying night, Catarina has been living in an abandoned warehouse trying to accept what has happened to her: she has been infected with a strange and ancient disease. A disease that gives her an insatiable urge to drink the blood of other humans. But there are also benefits to her infection: superhuman strength, speed and senses beyond her wildest dreams. Embracing her situation, Catarina begins using her abilities to hunt down the most evil people in the city: the drug kingpins. If she has to feed on others in order to survive, then only the most deserving of her vengeance will become victims. With the help of her friend, Ren, Catarina starts dismantling the city’s powerful drug cartels one house at a time. But every dealer she removes from the street makes her disease stronger. And harder to control. Cat’s disease, her Hunger, just wants to nudge what remains of her tortured soul into the liberating embrace of the evil Darkness.And sometimes you have to embrace the evil in your life in order to accomplish the greater good.

In Arcadia, being different is HERESY. Heresy is DEATH. To survive, citizens must live, dress, and even love according to the United Council’s will. Their power is absolute—until a rebel bomb ignites at a national ceremony and unites the lives of three unlikely people.When the bombing goes wrong, Nicolette Howell, a young heretic, finds herself alone and on the run, bearing secrets that Arcadia would kill for. When she’s captured, she must escape, but how can she, when her best chance lies with the son of her sworn enemy?Driven by the execution of an innocent, Jacob Osgood, a United Councilor’s son, hunts for the truth about the heretic movement that Arcadia has hidden. But truth could cost him the one thing he cannot stand to lose: the girl who saved his life at the bombing.Shiloh Haven, the orphaned daughter of heretics, is forced to become Arcadia’s spy in a sinister plot to destroy the heretic army. She faces a terrible choice: survive or risk everything to save the boy she might just love and the rebels who are her only chance of being free.As their fates entwine, the three must answer an impossible question. WHAT WOULD YOU DIE FOR?

Two years ago, Catarina Perez woke up in alley during the worst night of her life. She was covered in blood and lying next to the corpse of a complete stranger, and she had no idea how she got there or what happened to him. That night, though, Catarina discovered that whatever happened in that alley changed who she was. She was faster, stronger and more powerful than any other human she’d ever met. But the more she used her abilities, the stronger her impulse to hurt people became. Refusing to abandon her new gifts, she instead focused on hunting down the most evil people she could locate and unleashing her rage upon them. One year ago, Catarina met Ren who was the only person she’d ever encountered who was immune to her impulse to inflict pain on others, and together they worked to take down as much of the human scum infecting their city as they could. It was a perfect plan until they met Chadwick Morin, a genius more diabolical than they were prepared for. A man who was personally responsible for the death of Catarina’s younger sister. Now, Catarina and Ren are prepared to risk everything to bring Chadwick to justice and end the drug cartels’ reign over their city. It is a journey that may ultimately destroy more than anybody is prepared to lose.