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Cherry Ames

Cherry Ames Boxed Set #5: Companion Nurse; Jungle Nurse; The Mystery in the Doctor's Office; Ski Nurse Mystery

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Cherry Ames Boxed Set 17-20 contains the Cherry's final adventures in four pulse-pounding mysteries: Companion Nurse, Jungle Nurse, The Mystery at the Doctor's Office, and Ski Nurse Mystery.

Cherry Ames is back, just as you remember her! The books are just as you remember them, retaining the same look, feel, and sense of adventure and patriotism as when they were first published. With fully illustrated color covers and a soft-finished hardcover format just like the originals, these books will transport you back to the days when you were reading about this spunky young nurse. Series editor and registered nurse Harriet Forman was inspired by, and remains a devoted fan of, Cherry Ames: "...I was going to follow in her footsteps and become a nurse—nothing else would do."

Springer Publishing Company is delighted to be bringing Helen Wells's beloved heroine back into print for a new generation of younger readers (as well as a host of nostalgic older ones). The books are available as beautifully rendered facsimile hardcover editions and in boxed sets of four. We intend to have all of the Helen Wells books back in print by early 2008. Below is our reissue schedule:

Cherry Ames, Student Nurse (published)

Cherry Ames, Senior Nurse (published)

Cherry Ames, Army Nurse (published)

Cherry Ames, Chief Nurse (published)

Cherry Ames, Boxed Set 1-4 (published)

Cherry Ames, Flight Nurse (published)

Cherry Ames, Veterans' Nurse (published)

Cherry Ames, Private Duty Nurse (published)

Cherry Ames, Visiting Nurse (published)

Cherry Ames, Boxed Set 5-8 (published)

Cherry Ames, Cruise Nurse (published)

Cherry Ames, Boarding School Nurse (published)

Cherry Ames, Department Store Nurse (published)

Cherry Ames, Camp Nurse (published)

Cherry Ames, Boxed Set 9-12 (published)

Cherry Ames, At Hilton Hospital (published)

Cherry Ames, Island Nurse (published)

Cherry Ames, Rural Nurse (published)

Cherry Ames, Staff Nurse (published)

Cherry Ames, Boxed Set 13-16 (published)

Cherry Ames, Companion Nurse (published)

Cherry Ames, Jungle Nurse (published)

Cherry Ames, The Mystery in the Doctor's Office (published)

Cherry Ames, Ski Nurse Mystery (published)

Cherry Ames, Boxed Set 17-20 (published)

896 pages, Hardcover

First published January 29, 2007

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About the author

Helen Wells

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Original name: Helen Weinstock. Social worker turned full-time young adult writer, born in Illinois but moved with family to New York City when she was seven. In 1934 Wells graduated from New York University [where she'd been the first female editor of the literary quarterly], with a major in philosophy and a minor in sociology and psychology.

During World War II, she served as a volunteer with the State Department's Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, escorting Latin American visitors in the United States.

Author of Cherry Ames, Nurse books, a series for young teens.

She was also the author of the Vicki Barr books, about a young mystery-solving flight attendant. And, as Francine Lewis, she penned the short-lived Polly French series (1950s), aimed at a younger readership.

After writing the first eight books of the Cherry Ames series and the first three Vicki Barr books, Wells decided to abandon both series to write for television and radio, and Julie Tatham took over (however, both the ninth Cherry Ames book and the fourth Vicki Barr book were published under Wells's name). Tatham later returned the Vicki Barr books to Wells in 1953 and the Cherry Ames books in 1955.

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