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Cameron: The Sorority
A new student at South Florida State, Cameron had never expected her lifelong goal of pledging a sorority to be so stressful and confusing, but when she meets gorgeous Tad Amata, who adores her but dislikes Greek life, she becomes even more troubled.
- GenresYoung AdultCollege
272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published May 4, 2004
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Wendy Corsi Staub
81 books1,891 followersNew York Times bestseller Wendy Corsi Staub is the award-winning author of more than ninety novels, best known for the single title psychological suspense novels she writes under her own name. Those books and the women’s fiction written under the pseudonym Wendy Markham have also appeared on the USA Today, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Bookscan bestseller lists.
Her current standalone suspense novel, THE OTHER FAMILY, is about a picture-perfect family that that moves into a picture-perfect house. But not everything is as it seems, and the page-turner concludes “with a wallop of a twist,” according to #1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben.
Her critically acclaimed Lily Dale traditional mystery series centers around a widowed single mom—and skeptic—who moves to a town populated by spiritualists who talk to the dead. Titles include NINE LIVES; SOMETHING BURIED, SOMETHING BLUE; DEAD OF WINTER; and PROSE AND CONS, with a fifth book under contract.
Wendy has written five suspense trilogies for HarperCollins/William Morrow. The most recent, The Foundlings (LITTLE GIRL LOST, DEAD SILENCE, and THE BUTCHER’S DAUGHTER), spans fifty years in the life of a woman left as a newborn in a Harlem church, now an investigative genealogist helping others uncover their biological roots while still searching for her own.
Written as Wendy Markham, Wendy’s novel HELLO, IT’S ME was a recent Hallmark television movie starring Kellie Martin. Her short story “Cat Got Your Tongue” appeared in R.L. Stine’s MWA middle grade anthology SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN and her short story “The Elephant in the Room” is included in the Anthony Award-nominated inaugural anthology SHATTERING GLASS.
A three-time finalist for the Simon and Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award, she’s won an RWA Rita Award, an RT Award for Career Achievement in Suspense, the 2007 RWA-NYC Golden Apple Award for Lifetime Achievement, and five WLA Washington Irving Prizes for Fiction.
She previously published a dozen adult suspense novels with Kensington Books and the critically-acclaimed young adult paranormal series “Lily Dale” (Walker/Bloomsbury). Earlier in her career, she published a broad range of genres under her own name and pseudonyms, and was a co-author/ghostwriter for several celebrities.
Raised in Dunkirk, NY, Wendy graduated from SUNY Fredonia and launched a publishing career in New York City. She was Associate Editor at Silhouette Books before selling her first novel in 1992. Married with two sons, she lives in the NYC suburbs. An active supporter of the American Cancer Society, she was a featured speaker at Northern Westchester’s 2015 Relay for Life and 2012 National Spokesperson for the Sandy Rollman Ovarian Cancer Foundation. She has fostered for various animal rescue organizations.
Her current standalone suspense novel, THE OTHER FAMILY, is about a picture-perfect family that that moves into a picture-perfect house. But not everything is as it seems, and the page-turner concludes “with a wallop of a twist,” according to #1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben.
Her critically acclaimed Lily Dale traditional mystery series centers around a widowed single mom—and skeptic—who moves to a town populated by spiritualists who talk to the dead. Titles include NINE LIVES; SOMETHING BURIED, SOMETHING BLUE; DEAD OF WINTER; and PROSE AND CONS, with a fifth book under contract.
Wendy has written five suspense trilogies for HarperCollins/William Morrow. The most recent, The Foundlings (LITTLE GIRL LOST, DEAD SILENCE, and THE BUTCHER’S DAUGHTER), spans fifty years in the life of a woman left as a newborn in a Harlem church, now an investigative genealogist helping others uncover their biological roots while still searching for her own.
Written as Wendy Markham, Wendy’s novel HELLO, IT’S ME was a recent Hallmark television movie starring Kellie Martin. Her short story “Cat Got Your Tongue” appeared in R.L. Stine’s MWA middle grade anthology SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN and her short story “The Elephant in the Room” is included in the Anthony Award-nominated inaugural anthology SHATTERING GLASS.
A three-time finalist for the Simon and Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award, she’s won an RWA Rita Award, an RT Award for Career Achievement in Suspense, the 2007 RWA-NYC Golden Apple Award for Lifetime Achievement, and five WLA Washington Irving Prizes for Fiction.
She previously published a dozen adult suspense novels with Kensington Books and the critically-acclaimed young adult paranormal series “Lily Dale” (Walker/Bloomsbury). Earlier in her career, she published a broad range of genres under her own name and pseudonyms, and was a co-author/ghostwriter for several celebrities.
Raised in Dunkirk, NY, Wendy graduated from SUNY Fredonia and launched a publishing career in New York City. She was Associate Editor at Silhouette Books before selling her first novel in 1992. Married with two sons, she lives in the NYC suburbs. An active supporter of the American Cancer Society, she was a featured speaker at Northern Westchester’s 2015 Relay for Life and 2012 National Spokesperson for the Sandy Rollman Ovarian Cancer Foundation. She has fostered for various animal rescue organizations.
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Wendy Corsi Staub's Cameron: The Sorority was honestly not what I was expecting. Instead of a book just about teenage girls trying to fit into the college scene, many deeper subjects are discussed, particularly race. Cameron is a biracial girl that is white passing and has to be able to figure out what exactly she wants and who it is that she wants to be. I love coming of age stories, and this was a solid example of one. The main character is relatable and all the characters act like college students out on their own for the first time. All of the girls are rushing for their choice in sorority and vary in their depictions. Not all the girls are the same and represent a range of the people that actually want to be involved in sororities.
Most of the focus in this book is on race, and while I can not say for sure on the representation, it seemed to be very well done, as Cameron struggles with who she should be, especially as she deals with people who make racist comments to her without knowing her background. I recently moved to the South, and the idea that everyone is so double sided is an accurate depiction. College is a time of finding who you want to be and Cameron begins to figure this out throughout the course of the novel.
I did struggle with some of the decisions that Cameron makes, particularly towards the end of the novel that makes it difficult to keep reading. Cameron makes most of his decisions only because she is considering impressing Tad, the guy she likes. Her decisions concerning race are real and these struggles were interesting to read about, but she often acts like a jerk who is "not like other girls", including insulting the popular girls while not being nice to the unpopular girls either. She is not a very likeable main character, so while I acknowledge the issues she has to face are very real, the characters seemed flat and lacking.
I would recommend reading this for other teenagers that are in their first few years of college. I read it my freshman year of college, and while I did struggle with some of the characters, the plot was relatable and some of the decisions made are unique to this age. Overall, it was an easy and relatable read that was enjoyable enough.
Wendy Corsi Staub's Cameron: The Sorority was honestly not what I was expecting. Instead of a book just about teenage girls trying to fit into the college scene, many deeper subjects are discussed, particularly race. Cameron is a biracial girl that is white passing and has to be able to figure out what exactly she wants and who it is that she wants to be. I love coming of age stories, and this was a solid example of one. The main character is relatable and all the characters act like college students out on their own for the first time. All of the girls are rushing for their choice in sorority and vary in their depictions. Not all the girls are the same and represent a range of the people that actually want to be involved in sororities.
Most of the focus in this book is on race, and while I can not say for sure on the representation, it seemed to be very well done, as Cameron struggles with who she should be, especially as she deals with people who make racist comments to her without knowing her background. I recently moved to the South, and the idea that everyone is so double sided is an accurate depiction. College is a time of finding who you want to be and Cameron begins to figure this out throughout the course of the novel.
I did struggle with some of the decisions that Cameron makes, particularly towards the end of the novel that makes it difficult to keep reading. Cameron makes most of his decisions only because she is considering impressing Tad, the guy she likes. Her decisions concerning race are real and these struggles were interesting to read about, but she often acts like a jerk who is "not like other girls", including insulting the popular girls while not being nice to the unpopular girls either. She is not a very likeable main character, so while I acknowledge the issues she has to face are very real, the characters seemed flat and lacking.
I would recommend reading this for other teenagers that are in their first few years of college. I read it my freshman year of college, and while I did struggle with some of the characters, the plot was relatable and some of the decisions made are unique to this age. Overall, it was an easy and relatable read that was enjoyable enough.
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November 3, 2010I learned a lot about inner conflict with this book. Things are happening around the main character but the main conflict is internal. The protagonist is struggling with her race. She is keeping the secret that she is half black because she’s afraid of being discriminated against. So it’s mostly by this internal struggle that the plot moves and it also keeps us interested in the book. I thought this helped me as a write because this book still works even though a million things aren’t happening to the character.
March 8, 2011
This book had great conflict in it. Showing both struggles within and from outside influences. I would definitly recommend this book to others.
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July 13, 2016"Tudengielu 101 ehk Cameron ja tudengineiude selts" eesti keeles
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