Books with author CeCe Carroll

When home no longer feels like home - where can you go? When your best friend won’t listen - who can you turn to? When love makes you feel weak - how do you protect your heart?With constant fighting at home, Emma decides working at High Street Books and practicing avoidance is the best method to save her from more heartache. She doesn’t expect to meet Jake, the shop owner’s nephew, who makes her stomach do crazy things. But Jake is intent on pushing her away, and Emma must ask herself: Is he scared? Or is he hiding something?Tastes Like Winter is a story of love, family, and friendship and, when everything is uncertain, trying to figure out where you fit in.

At seventeen, among the shift and collapse of family and friends, Emma fell in love. Jake came into her life and saw her in a way no one else did. But Jake was battling his own demons and with each step forward came several steps back. Four years later, Emma has changed. When she left High Gate so her mother could pursue a new career in Colorado, things were left open ended with Jake. Emma hoped their fragile bond would grow stronger despite their distance, but life doesn't always work out that way. Hardened by a broken heart, Emma ditches hopes and dreams in favor of safer choices. But when Jake appears back in her life, she must decide what she wants, what she needs, and what she can’t live without.

When home no longer feels like home - where can you go? When your best friend won’t listen - who can you turn to? When love makes you feel weak - how do you protect your heart? With constant fighting at home, Emma decides working at High Street Books and practicing avoidance is the best method to save her from more heartache. She doesn’t expect to meet Jake, the shop owner’s nephew, who makes her stomach do crazy things. But Jake is intent on pushing her away, and Emma must ask herself: Is he scared? Or is he hiding something? Tastes Like Winter is a story of love, family, and friendship and, when everything is uncertain, trying to figure out where you fit in.

Missy Mouse is determined to build a rocket ship to take her to the moon. Not just for the adventure of it all, but so she can bring back a ship-full of green cheese for her family-Aunt Selina, and Grandpa, and all her cousins. But the adventure begins quite suddenly when her rocket ship seems to take flight. She crashes, nearly drowns, is chased by fearsome water rats and discovers an unexpected friendship. Meanwhile, back home, her cousins are having a scary adventure all their own! Missy Mouse and the Rocket Ship is a fable for children 6 to 10. A story about family, true friends, and never giving up on your dreams!

Old Dumpling is an inventor, who lives on a Universe where it has never rained, but he knows the signs. He tries to warn the neighbors, but they laugh at him and won't listen anymore. He befriends Little Girl, and Young Boy, and discovers a surprising secret from another Universe. A "Noah and the Ark" type of story set in another world, it is also about friendship between Olders and Youngers, and why you shouldn't steal other people's ideas or throw rocks at glass houses. Old Dumpling is one of a series of books called "Imagine That!" If reading this story to a child, encourage him or her to draw their own illustrations.

All is quiet in small-town Illinois. Father Bailey is mixing another martini. Father Alphonso is on the phone from the Vatican. Special envoy Christian Mannix is nowhere in sight. Deacon Furner is lurking in the church basement. Detective Rugger is scowling in a professional manner. Father Vincent is dead at the altar. One Dead Priest is illustrated with thirty-six striking graphics done by Spanish artist Enric Simon, whose steely comic book style adds much to the story's atmosphere.