Sandra Forrester

Background

Sandra Forrester was born on the 8th of April 1949 in Cullman, Alabama, United States. She was a daughter of Robert Martin who was a transportation specialist, and Dorothy Forrester who was a government employee.

Education

Sandra Forrester studied at Judson College with Bachelor of Arts degree in 1970. He attended University of Virginia in 1972 and finally she graduated from University of North Carolina at Greensboro and received Master of Library and Information Science degree in 1996.

Career

Sandra started her career as a occupational analyst at Department of the Army in Alexandria, Virginia in 1974. She has held this position till 1985. Then in 1985 he became a management analyst at Falls Church till 1992. From that year she is a management analyst at Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

Achievements

• Sandra's book "Sound the Jubilee" was selected as a notable children’s trade book in the field of social studies, and as a Bank Street children’s book of the year, both for 1996.

Works

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  • Sound the Jubilee

    (During the Civil War, Maddie, a young slave girl, and her...)

    1995
  • Dust from Old Bones

    (Author Sandra Forrester, acclaimed for bringing to life l...)

    1999
  • My Home Is over Jordan: Sequel to "Sound the Jubilee"

    (No longer a slave now that the Civil War is over, fifteen...)

    2001
  • The Witches of Winged-Horse Mountain (The Adventures of Beatrice Bailey)

    (Apprentice witch Beatrice Bailey and her friends are off ...)

    2003
  • The Witches of Widdershins Academy (Beatrice Bailey's Adventures)

    (It's a cold December day when teenage apprentice witch Be...)

    2007
  • Wheel of the Moon

    (When Pen's mother dies and har home is taken away from he...)

    2000
  • Leo and the Lesser Lion

    (A heartwarming family story set during the Depression tha...)

    2009
  • The Everyday Witch: A Tale of Magic and High Adventure! (Beatrice Bailey's Magical Adventures)

    (Beatrice Bailey is tall, skinny, and about to turn twelve...)

    2001

Membership

• American Library Association , United States

• Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators , United States

• American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals , United States

Interests

• (“everything from mysteries to poetry to history”), restoring old doll houses, beachcombing, researching, collecting nineteenth- and early twentieth-century children’s books, Majolica pottery, and Santa Clauses.

Connections

Father:

Robert Martin Forrester

Mother:

Dorothy Forrester