Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red Cross (Great Lives) [Paperback]

Susan Sloate (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 119 pages
• Publisher: Ballantine Books; 1st edition (August 22, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 044990380X
• ISBN-13: 978-0449903803
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,191,817 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Co-author of FORWARD TO CAMELOT, 2003 alternative-history novel from Authorhouse (finalist in 2004 IPPY Awards, finalist in 2004 Arizona Authors Assn. Literary Competition). #6 Amazon bestseller in Sci-Fi/Fantasy, optioned in 2005 by Fast Carrier Pictures for film. (Currently available.) Semi-finalist in the 2008 and 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contests with STEALING FIRE (info and excerpt appear on my website and at www.abnabooks.com). Also author of 16 published young-adult books (fiction and non-fiction, sports, biography, romance, etc), which includes Silver Medal/2007 Moonbeam Awards, for RAY CHARLES: FIND ANOTHER WAY! from Bearport Publishing. MYSTERIES UNWRAPPED: THE SECRETS OF ALCATRAZ (2008, Sterling Publisher) led to author appearance on MYSTERY QUEST: ALCATRAZ, a special for The History Channel, summer 2009. Playwright (two produced plays), screenwriter (2 screen properties optioned), sportswriter (major-league baseball and power volleyball). Founded and chaired The East Cooper Authors Festival in May 2007, a program that brought together published authors with students from primary schools through high school outside Charleston, South Carolina in programs designed to excite young readers. Inaugural program reached more than 11,000 students in one day.