New Releases by Patricia Hermes

Going Places Together, Book 17 of a 20-book series. Special thanks to Trends Charitable Fund for sponsoring the "I Am Learning" project for individuals with Special Needs. Social stories are a resource for individuals with disabilities and their families. Social stories are meant to bring awareness to the reader.

Not So Good Thoughts, Book 19 of a 20-book series. Special thanks to Trends Charitable Fund for sponsoring the "I Am Learning" project for individuals with Special Needs. Social stories are a resource for individuals with disabilities and their families. Social stories are meant to bring awareness to the reader.

Sharing Book 12 of a 20-book series. Special thanks to Trends Charitable Fund for sponsoring the "I Am Learning" project for individuals with Special Needs. Social stories are a resource for individuals with disabilities and their families. Social stories are meant to bring awareness to the reader.

Keeping Clean, Book 7 of a 20-book series. Special thanks to Trends Charitable Fund for sponsoring the "I Am Learning" project for individuals with Special Needs. Social stories are a resource for individuals with disabilities and their families. Social stories are meant to bring awareness to the reader.

Highlights, Excerpts - Social Story Book 20 of a 20-book series. Special thanks to Trends Charitable Fund for sponsoring the "I Am Learning" project for individuals with Special Needs. Social stories are a resource for individuals with disabilities and their families. Social stories are meant to bring awareness to the reader.

Excuse Me, Book 16 of a 20-book series. Special thanks to Trends Charitable Fund for sponsoring the "I Am Learning" project for individuals with Special Needs. Social stories are a resource for individuals with disabilities and their families. Social stories are meant to bring awareness to the reader.

Friends, Book 10 of a 20-book series. Special thanks to Trends Charitable Fund for sponsoring the "I Am Learning" project for individuals with Special Needs. Social stories are a resource for individuals with disabilities and their families. Social stories are meant to bring awareness to the reader.

Helping At School, Book 18 of a 20-book series. Special thanks to Trends Charitable Fund for sponsoring the "I Am Learning" project for individuals with Special Needs. Social stories are a resource for individuals with disabilities and their families. Social stories are meant to bring awareness to the reader.

Let''s Eat, Book 8 of a 20-book series. Special thanks to Trends Charitable Fund for sponsoring the "I Am Learning" project for individuals with Special Needs. Social stories are a resource for individuals with disabilities and their families. Social stories are meant to bring awareness to the reader.

Born in Northern Nevada in 1950, Black Cloud is a black-and-white mustang colt. He loves roaming free with the rest of his herd, playing with the other foals, and learning the ways of wild horses. But when humans intrude on this wandering life, Black Cloud's world is changed forever. Like Black Beauty, this moving novel is told in first person from the horse's own point of view and includes an appendix full of photos and facts about mustangs and the history of the laws protecting them.

For anyone who has ever dreamed of hearing a horse’s story . . . Independence, Missouri, 1846 Koda is a bay quarter horse with a white blaze. He loves to explore the countryside and run free with his human friend Jasmine nearby. But after Koda sets out with Jasmine’s family on a long and dusty wagon train journey on the Oregon Trail, he finds out what is truly important to him. Here is Koda’s story . . . in his own words. With moving and knowledgeable text and lovely black-and-white art throughout—both by real horse people—this is the perfect fit for all lovers of horses and history!

During the autumn of the year, thirteen-year-old Sarah learns her mother is dying of cancer.

A 12-year-old boy vows he will never do to his future family what his father did by leaving the boy, his sister and mother. Yet, 30 years later, the boy now a man leaves his own family. A young woman who's broken off an abusive relationship is now attracted to the same kind of personality in a potential boyfriend. And an attorney who grew up with an impossible-to-please father takes a job in a firm where the boss thinks praise is never productive. These are the kind of repetitive cycles that Stanley Rosner has seen time and again in his practice across 40 years as a clinical psychologist. A past president of the Connecticut Psychological Association, Rosner examines in this book whether there is for some people a compulsion to repeat self-destructive acts, and what the foundation for that compulsion might be, as well as how it can be changed to afford better, happier living. Assisted by popular author Patricia Hermes, Rosner offers many eye-opening vignettes from his therapy rooms, showing us clearly how early life events can create unconscious dilemmas that move us to repeat the situation in other forms. He aims to show us how we can resolve the issues that linger, explaining how to recognize these issues, then move forward to put them to rest in ways that are not self-sabotaging. What I have to offer, says Rosner, is the opportunity for change.

My Side of the Story is completely unique approach to historical fiction. Read the story of one youngster's life in turbulent times, then flip the book and find out first hand how another child reacts to the same events - with very different feelings and results! 12 year old Melody is an adventure-loving young girl who lives in Virginia. She dislikes the sewing her sisters Elisabeth and Jasmine are so good at, and prefers to ride her beloved horses. Her simple life becomes complicated when the North and South factions of the Union become increasingly tense and eventually war is declared. Her father goes off to war, as does one of her cousins - but he has enlisted on the opposing side. Melody's loyalties are stretched to breaking point and little does she know that her personal abilities will prove a decisive factor in the fate of her family. 12 year old Marshall loves going out shooting rabbits with his older brother, Jeffrey, who he looks up to so much. Times are good in their family until Jeffrey goes off to fight in the Civil War, on the other side to his uncle. the desperate fortunes Jeffrey and his fellow soldiers are experiencing.

Twelve-year-old Missy tries to learn more about her mother's odd behavior as she and her two friends share some secrets during a long, hot summer in Mississippi toward the end of World War II.

Eleven-year-old Blessing has lived with her grandmother in a cabin in the Tennessee mountains since she was two years old, secure in a relationship of love and shared music, but now she has to accept that her grandmother is dying and that she must continu

In 1611, ten-year-old Elizabeth continues a journal of her experiences living in Jamestown, as her brother Caleb rejoins the family, a new strict governor comes to the colony, and her father considers remarriage. Simultaneous.

Late in 1848, nine-year-old Joshua McCullough starts a second journal, this time recording events in Willamette Valley, Oregon Territory, as his family and others they met on the trail begin to get settled. Simultaneous.

In Alabama in the last summer of World War II, as her best friend goes boy crazy, eleven-year-old Missy''s mother goes "sick crazy," causing Missy to question whether God plans for bad things to happen

Twelve-year-old Abbie struggles to accept her father's desire to make a new home for his family on the Nebraska prairies of the late 1850s.

With her mother dead and her father an alcoholic who disappears for days at a time, Gabrielle must assume responsibility for her younger brother Will and herself, barely making ends meet and afraid to put her trust in anyone.

When her arch-rival, Tiffany Bianca, brings a rabbit to class for show and tell, seven-year-old Katie Potts decides she must have one also and lies to her Grandpa to try to get one. Original.

After her mother dies, thirteen-year-old Amy Alden comes to live with her eccentric inventor father on a farm in Canada, and the two of them grow closer as they raise a group of young goslings and help them learn to migrate. Inspired by the story of Bill Lishman.

Christmas is just around the corner, and Katie Potts can''t seem to stop causing trouble at school. Even her best friend, Amelia, is mad at her! Daddy keeps telling her she''s a good girl. But Katie wonders if he''s right, and if Santa Claus will bring presents to someone like her.

The Cousins' Club meets at Jennifer's and Amy's house during winter vacation.

As she struggles to make ends meet while maintaining her family's dignity, eleven-year-old Genevieve faces the possibility of turning in a slave for the bounty.