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Cherry Ames, Chief Nurse

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."

In Chief Nurse, Cherry is whisked off to a new assignment on an island in the Pacific close to the battlefront -as Acting Chief Nurse! Colonel Pillsbee thinks she is too "young and pretty" to successfully supervise sixty nurses and 200 corpsmen. Can she do it? For the first time Cherry and the nurses of the Spencer unit have to work under fire, in a makeshift tent hospital uncomfortably close to the fighting. When the casualties pour in, the nurses and doctors work night and day, constantly under danger of attack by the Japanese. When the other Lieutenant Ames, Cherry's twin brother Charlie, is unexpectedly stationed nearby, Charlie and Cherry piece together the mystery behind the silence of an injured pilot - which involves a secret enemy weapon.

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)

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• Cherry Ames, Visiting Nurse
• Cherry Ames, Flight Nurse

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• New Moon
• Eclipse