Books with author T. Campbell

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.

The final book in the Clanless Series!For four grueling years I looked forward to my freshman year of college. It should have been the besttime of my life. Unfortunately, I never made it through the first month. Learning how to be a vampirebecame infinitely more important. Parties and classes and hanging out with my friends got set aside so Icould learn how to fight, how to use my powers, and how to survive.If the school of hard knocks wasn't bad enough, the school of life decided to test me, too. I leave town andAlexander, the one guy I can't stand to be around-or without, gets taken by the Sidhe to pay for oursupposed crimes. Now its up to me to rescue him and get his elven relatives to leave us alone. Soundseasy right? Try it while you're being stalked by the vampire who might have made you and a werewolfwith a major superiority complex. My friends and I have been through a lot together and there hasn't beenanything we couldn't overcome. But Freshman year might be more than we can handle...Being a vampire sucks.The Clanless Series:Senior Year BitesSummer Break BluesFreshman Year Freaks

In his fiction debut--and the start of a new series--celebrated illustrator K.G. Campbell brings a touch of Tim Burton to this singularly strange and wonderful story about a lonely boy whose life is about to get a whole lot more complicated when a zombie follows him home.August DuPont has spent his whole life inside a dilapidated house with his aunt Hydrangea. His lonely existence ends abruptly with the arrival of an invitation to meet an aunt--and cousins--he didn't even know existed. When Aunt Orchid suggests that August attend school with his cousins, it's a dream come true. But August has scarcely begun to celebrate his reversal of fortune when he is confronted by a small problem on his way home. So begins an adventure filled with a wild child, a zombie, a fabled white alligator, and an unimaginable family secret.

I survived my senior year of high school despite being turned into a vampire. Summer break should be a snap. No getting up early or making excuses why I can't make it to class or hang out with my friends. I had hoped to put the events of last year behind me. Unfortunately, the Sidhe won't let me. Nobody holds a grudge like they do, especially when you kill one of their own. They're intent on making my life miserable and considerably shorter. When Ann's parents vanish while vacationing in Maine, we head out to find them. Of course the Sidhe follow and I manage to capture the interest of another vampire. One who wants answers as to what makes me different. Answers I don't have and that might just get me killed for good this time. Dealing with supernatural attacks while trying to find Ann's parents keeps us on our toes but as long we’re together, we can handle anything. At least until things really start to fall apart.

Book 1 in the complete Trilogy. Senior year is supposed to be fun: boys, dances and graduation. It's significantly harder to enjoy it when you're dead.Thanks to an innocent game of Truth or Dare, I wound up sleeping in a graveyard. Probably not the brightest thing I've ever done, but thanks to a couple of well-placed fangs, I'm here to tell the tale.Vampires might stalk pop culture, but they're just myths, right? Yeah. Not so much...Everything seems a lot more difficult when you're a nocturnal creature of the night, especially school. I was managing, but couldn't keep it hidden from my friends. Steph decided that we should be cool, like superheroes, and fight crime.I'm a vampire, not a hero. Living in a sleepy New England town, crime is a little harder to come by. At least it is until a serial killer moves into the area. He's got the authorities stumped, but then again, the cops don't have a teenage, blood-sucking, non-hero on their team. It doesn't take long for me to discover the world is full of monsters. I may be one of them...but will I turn out to be the hero, or the killer everyone is looking for.The Clanless Series:Senior Year BitesSummer Break BluesFreshman Year Freaks

THE SCHOOL SHOOTER WHO DIDN’T SHOOT.Growing up an autistic loner Thomas Campbell’s schooldays were a living nightmare of bullying and abuse that saw him in psychiatric care by age 8.The target of entire classrooms, he developed a lifelong hatred of all things educational. This hatred – the shared thinking of the school shooter – has gifted him with a unique insight into the slaughter we are witnessing in our schools now.For the first time a book is written from the perspective of the classroom avenger, one that explores their distorted thinking and reveals the ‘socially acceptable’ evils that provoke such a lethal response. ‘In this angry, tender, and extraordinary work, Thomas Campbell writes with fierce immediacy from the cultural ultra-violet of the Asperger spectrum, allowing us a crucial glimpse into the emotional gulag to which we thoughtlessly sentence thousands daily, and perhaps moderating our disingenuous surprise when another awkward loner takes an assault rifle to class for Show and Tell. Written with a lucid honesty, unafraid of its own unavoidable subjectivity. Comics and Columbine is the slap in the face that we badly needed and deserved, delivered in a clear and ringing voice from the white-hot heart of the experience. It is a voice that we ignore to our considerable loss, and at our considerable peril. Campbell has written what in my opinion is a beautiful narrative about an irredeemably ugly subject. I really cannot recommend this vital and necessary book too strongly.’-Alan Moore, Author of Watchmen/V for Vendetta/ From HellEXTENSIVELY ILLUSTRATED

We grew up with the same parents in the same castle, but in many ways we each had a moat around us. Sometimes when visitors came they would say, “You are such lucky children; it’s a fairytale life you live.” And I knew they were right, it was a fairytale upbringing. But fairy tales are dark and I had no way of telling either a stranger or a friend what was going on; the abnormal became ordinary. Liza Campbell was the last child to be born at the impressive and renowned Cawdor Castle, the family seat of the Campbells, as featured in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Liza’s father Hugh, the twenty-fifth Thane, inherited dashing good looks, brains, immense wealth, an ancient and revered title, three stately homes, and 100,000 acres of land. A Charmed Life tells the story of Liza’s idyllic childhood with her four siblings in Wales in the 1960s, until Hugh inherited Cawdor Castle and moved his family up to the Scottish Highlands. It was at the historical ancestral home that the fairytale began to resemble a nightmare. Increasingly overwhelmed by his enormous responsibilities, Hugh tipped into madness fuelled by drink, drugs, and extramarital affairs. Over the years, the castle was transformed into an arena of reckless extravagance and terrifying domestic violence, leading to the abrupt termination of a legacy that had been passed down through the family for six hundred years. Written with a sharp wit, A Charmed Life is a contemporary fairytale that tells what is like to grow up as a maiden in a castle where ancient curses and grisly events from centuries ago live on between its stone walls. Painstakingly honest and thoroughly entertaining, Liza Campbell offers a compelling look at what it is like to grow up with enormous privilege and yet watch the father she idealizes destroy himself, his family, and his heritage. Praise for A CHARMED LIFE: "Beautifully written…eminently readable…A memoir which has many elements to identify with--even if you ain't no Lady." --Tama Janowitz, author of Slaves of New York and Area Code 212 “Campbell tells the wild, sorry tale with a sharp, offhand wit.” -- Sunday Times (UK)“She writes not from catharsis or revenge, but in the spirit of puzzlement and discovery...Completely compelling.” -- Daily Telegraph (UK) “A gripping page turner...A CHARMED LIFE is a great title, and Liza Campbell's book lives up to it.” -- Daily Mail (UK) “A modern tragedy ... Written with great courage ... A stark tale of profligacy and injustice.” -- Country Life (UK)“A very powerful, painful story...I have never read such a compelling study of addiction...An exceptional writer.” -- Mail on Sunday (UK)“This is a sad book; yet Campbell’s lack of sentimentality and needle-sharp wit make for a guiltily voyeuristic read.” – Independent (UK) “A memoir that is as free of self-pity as it is of sentimentality ... Poignant.”–Scotsman (UK) “As a prose stylist, Liza is comparable to Nancy Astor: wry, deadpan, whimsical.” -- The Sunday Telegraph (UK)

This book will help you if you receive the content of it and take action in your life. I could have committed suicide ten times over, what was it that hindered me? At that time I had no idea that it was my foundational upbringing and the fear of God that was instilled in me, I choose God at an early age, even though I was far from a perfect teenager or young adult, and I could not understand why I would be going through these terrible ordeals, so I decided share my story in order to save someone from going through the agonizing pain, of depression and suicidal thoughtsand tendencies.

A Witch who doesn't fit in. A magical land of Spooky Folk. One wild Halloween night!Not so far away, in a land of Monsters and Ghosts and other creatures of the Spooky Folk, there lived a Witch named Winda. She was twelve years old, and more than anything, she wanted a normal life. A human life.But in Winda's magical homeland of Octoberlund, everyday was like Halloween. Vampires turned into bats and drank blood. Werewolves howled at the moon and lived to chase and hunt. Zombies shambled, Monsters crept, and the Undead plotted their revenge on the living. And then there were the Witches: all that spell-casting and broom-riding! What was a young misfit Witch to do?Join Winda and her friends Gobbler the Watch-o'-lantern and Weatherby the Warlock as they travel Through the Gate and Over the Wall. Get on board Winda's enchanted broom as the friends fly across the magical land of Octoberlund and into the forbidden Human land. Come along on an adventure filled with danger and wonder, and candy. For tonight is the real Halloween, and Winda intends to scare up some fun. It just so happens that along the way, she discovers who she really is, and where she truly belongs!Winda the Witch: Tales of the Spooky Folk is a preteen fantasy adventure for lovers of Halloween and Scary Stories for Children.