Books with author S.E. Campbell

Sydney Pierce has just met the guy of her dreams…just don’t tell her boyfriend, Trevor.With a gorgeous boyfriend, a thriving gymnastics career and a stellar academic record, anyone would assume that Sydney has it all. That's precisely what the seventeen-year-old perfectionist wants you to believe, and she works hard to keep up the pretense. Especially now that there are cameras following her for a documentary on Olympic hopefuls. When Grant, the charming new student, disrupts her carefully crafted routine, the cracks beneath her perfect façade begin to rise to the surface and despite Trevor's objections to their friendship, she can't stay away from him.As her connection to Grant pulls her closer to him, the once lighthearted relationship with Trevor takes an intense and dark turn, forcing her into a position in which not only her happiness, but her safety is at stake. Can Sydney learn to let go of everything she is clinging to in order to gain everything she has ever wanted, or will she realize her breaking point too late?

Hayden Banks is in trouble! On the first day of summer vacation, ten-year-old Hayden is nominated as the leader of the Brotherhood, a secret club he formed with his best friends. This is going to be the greatest summer of his life. Until his parents drop a bomb. The family is moving…to a small town in Georgia. When he arrives at his new home, he finds a farm with a bunch of peach trees, a house that looks haunted, and his scary grandfather. Hayden doesn’t know if his grandpa is a vampire, werewolf, or just a grumpy old man. The only positive is the tree house down by the river. Well, and new friends Josh, David, Peter, and Milly. They set out to form a tree house club, but the neighbor bully has other plans for them. Find out how Hayden deals with making new friends, learning to be a good leader, and understanding how precious life and family really are.

Ten-year-old Martha has leadership skills. At least, that’s what her parents say. Her cousins, Sanjay and Anand, say she’s bossy.When Martha secretly adopts a very pregnant cat from a garage sale free box right before her cousins come for a long visit, it puts a serious kink in her carefully laid plans for summer. That kink grows even bigger when the cat runs away. Still, Martha’s determined to give her cousins forty-two days of fun, Portland, Oregon style.But ten-year-old Sanjay and eight-year-old Anand face troubles of their own. Anand must get strong enough to conquer the Tarzan rope that looms across the neighborhood swimming pool. And Sanjay has a big secret stashed in Martha’s attic.Can they all work together to find Martha’s cat and newborn kittens? Or will the urban coyotes get them first?The Cat, the Cash, the Leap, and the List is a new take on the classic summer adventure story for middle grade readers.If you like books with humor, heart, and action like The Penderwicks, let Sue Campbell take you on a delightful romp through Portland in the summertime.Buy The Cat, the Cash, the Leap, and the List today to start your summer adventure.

Myndri, a Ml'vado priestess, is ready to commence her pilgrimage of blessings. To become a full fledged prophetess, Myndri must visit the four shrines of the gods of Ml'vadoism scattered throughout the island nation of Tiburonda. Each shrine will test Myndri's knowledge, as well as her physical powers.Breeze, a teenage street urchin, has spent the first thirteen years of her life in search of her mother that disappeared while she was an infant. In an attempt to earn money for her homeless “family," she is instructed by the local thieves guild to steal a lost weapon. When things go wrong, Breeze is forced to flee. During her escape, she meets Trebor, a Nepelite chieftain and disciple of Yavo who teaches her about his beliefs.With the same destinations, Myndri and Breeze cross paths and decide to travel together. Frequent discussions about the gods of Tiburonda bring the girls together and they quickly become close friends. Meanwhile, rumors of war, corruption, and deceit plague the land.Volume one of the Holy War of Tiburonda Saga, Pilgrimage of Blessings is a fantasy bursting with love and hate, loyalty and treason, humor and drama. You will be immersed in mystical lands with horrifying monsters and whimsical characters. Join Myndri, Breeze, and their comrades as they uncover several truths that will change their lives forever.

"Grounding Quinn sucked me in from the first page. I couldn't get enough of the story and characters. Simply beautiful." NYT bestselling author, Nicole Williams Eighteen-year-old Quinn MacPherson's biggest fear has always been turning out like her mentally unstable mother. (Solving algebraic equations comes in as a close second.)That is, until she meets Benjamin Shaw.Quinn thinks hooking up with Ben over summer vacation will be nothing more than a quick fling. She can’t even commit to a nail polish choice, much less some guy.Unfortunately for her, Ben is not just some guy. Ben gets her- the real her, flaws and all- and that scares the hell out of her. When Ben does the unthinkable- tells Quinn he’s in love with her- she does what comes naturally. She pushes him away. Ben can only watch from a distance as Quinn lashes out, and punishes him for daring to care about her. But how far can you push someone, even someone who loves you, before they are gone for good?**GROUNDING QUINN contains sexual situations, drug use, alcohol consumption, and swearing. It is intended for mature or older readers.GROUNDING QUINN is a companion book to DELICATE. Though GROUNDING QUINN was published before DELICATE, DELICATE does take place the year before. Therefore, GROUNDING QUINN may contain some spoilers to DELICATE.

Two strangers.Two broken hearts. One night to set each other free.Almost dying from an undiagnosed heart condition means every second of your life is a precious gift to be guarded. Lena Pettitt was born a miracle.And her parents never let her forget it. Even if that daily reminder kept her from experiencing the one thing they were trying to protect most--her life.Gabriel Martinez’s heart has been ripped out. His pride has been stomped on. Oh, and he now has an arrest record that’s caused an even bigger rift between him and his DA mother. All for a love that wasn’t really true.Now he’s exiled to his grandmother’s, working on his late grandpa’s old Corvair, when a shivering girl knocks on the garage door. Lena, left alone for the first time ever, has locked herself out of her house. Gabe knows he could help this girl get back inside her house--but that may mean missing the next train to Boston to pick up the part he’s spent weeks tracking down. She can wait for him at his grandmother’s or…A few hours, an aluminum valve cover, and some strong coffee later, neither Gabe nor Lena can feign disappointment when they race to the station and arrive just as the last train home from Boston is pulling out. As jaded as he is, Gabe can’t deny the fact that he’s excited to spend the night exploring a city he knows nearly every corner of, with a girl who sees magic in the simplest things.Lena has been waiting for her tiny world to crack open her entire life. Now that it’s finally happened, she finds the only thing she can focus on is the unexpected tour guide who opens her eyes to possibilities she never imagined.All they have is this one night, together, under the bright moon in a city full of hidden beauty. It’s one night that will change how they see the world and the paths their hearts will take forever.

Hi Almost Cool Girls and Boys, This book combines Book 1 and Book 2 of the Diary of an Almost Cool Girl series. In Book 1, you get to meet the main character, Maddi and find out what happened at her old school (before she was asked to leave). Hope you enjoy this prequel to the BEST SELLING Diary of an Almost Cool Girl Series. Included after Book 1 is Book 2 - Diary of an Almost Cool Girl: My New School...A new school...a new start. Well, that is what Madonna is hoping for. She is a "normal" girl, well kind of. Not in the cool group and not a nerd either. Just in between and trying to fit in. Follow her hilarious adventures at her new school. Bet you can relate to heaps of them! This book is suitable for girls or boys aged from 8 to 12 years of age. If you liked Diary of a Wimpy Kid, you'll probably like this book. It is about a girl who is "almost cool", kind, resilient and very very funny.Almost Cool Kids Rock!

When you secretly adopt a (very) pregnant cat, things get messy FAST.It’s her dream come true: Martha’s cousins are about to come for a six-week summer visit. But instead of hustling to meet her parents and head to the airport to pick them up, she finds herself rescuing a pregnant cat from a garage sale free box.Things get messy when her parents find out—and even worse when the cat runs away before giving birth to the kittens.And her cousins, Sanjay and Anand, face troubles of their own. Anand must get strong enough to conquer the Tarzan rope that looms across the neighborhood swimming pool. And Sanjay has a big secret stashed in Martha’s attic.Can they all work together to find Martha’s cat and newborn kittens? Or will the urban coyotes get them first?The Cat, the Cash, the Leap, and the List is a new take on the classic summer adventure story for middle grade readers.If you like books with humor, heart, and action like The Penderwicks, let Sue Campbell take you on a delightful romp through Portland in the summertime.Buy The Cat, the Cash, the Leap, and the List today to start the adventure.

2019 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominee, Best Academic/Scholarly WorkThe Goat Getters is a rip-roaring narrative of the origin of the comic strip told from a new perspective by one of the leading cartoon storytellers of our time. It features a wild bunch of early twentieth-century cartoonists based on the West Coast, including Jimmy Swinnerton, Tad Dorgan, George Herriman, and Rube Goldberg, whose domain was the sports and lurid crime pages, where they fashioned a bold, tough style, invented their own goofy slang that enriched the popular lexicon (to which the title of the book refers), and created characters such as Silk Hat Harry and the indomitable Krazy Kat. This exhaustively researched book is also an account, shown through original newspaper cartoons of the era, of the subjects of those cartoons: the landmark 1910 boxing match in Reno, Nevada, between Jim Jeffries, the “Great White Hope,” and Jack Johnson, the first African-American heavyweight champion; the nationwide race riots that followed; the San Francisco graft trials that culminated in the shooting of the federal prosecutor; and the trial of Harry Thaw for the murder of architect Stanford White, a crime of passion that centered on Thaw’s wife, showgirl Evelyn Nesbitt Thaw, whose beauty was celebrated by cartoonist Nell Brinkley. Campbell also shows how these early cartoons developed the kind of dynamic anatomy and recurring characters that continue to influence comics and graphic novels today.

They both have secrets...But whose past will catch up to them first? Shayna Gillan is on a mission: start fresh in a new state without the small town gossip that has haunted her since her bad girl days of high school.Carter MacPherson has long been the most together member of his crazy family—until now. With a secret threatening to crumble everything he's worked for, he wishes he could forget the recent past, too.The last thing Shayna and Carter are looking for is a relationship. It's best to be alone while they sort out their issues.Friends. That's all they can ever be.But even the best laid plans always have a flaw, and once Shayna and Carter cross the line between friendship and more, there's no turning back...The only question left is—whose past will catch up to them first?

Crummings' Home for the Dispossessed. A mysterious orphanage on the outskirts of town. When Emma Winters begins to discover the porcelain dolls hidden within the walls of her new home, dolls that strangely resemble several of her friends, she knows something's up. It can't just be a coincidence. The resemblance is uncanny.In a wave of shock, she realizes her fellow orphans aren't being adopted at all — they're disappearing.What secret is old headmistress Viola Crummings hiding? Emma must hurry to find out. If not, she may disappear next.