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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Emma''s new dilemma is how to share her nanny''s attention with others on a family camping trip

Por meio de histórias reais, o autor mostra como episódios traumáticos - como a separação dos pais na infância ou término conturbado de um relacionamento - podem criar dilemas inconscientes que acabam nos fazendo agir contra nós mesmos. O resultado é um ciclo de auto-destruição que afeta as relações pessoais e profissionais.

Contemporary / British English Amy Alden finds a nest of goose eggs, but there isn''t a mother goose. So she takes the eggs home. The baby geese think Amy is their mother. They follow her everywhere. But when the winter comes, they must fly south. Can Amy help them to fly away?

Emma and her siblings plot to keep their beloved nanny Annie from going on a three-week vacation and leaving them in the care of the totally uncool, animal-hating Mrs. Potts.

Emma tries to help her parents understand that, although their beloved new nanny has made a few mistakes, no one can behave perfectly responsibly all the time.

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 continue life without her in a new home.

Joshua McCullough and his family set off for Oregon in 1848 in a wagon train, facing new challenges and adventures.

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.

Nine-year-old Elizabeth keeps a journal of her experiences in the New World as she encounters Indians, suffers hunger and the death of friends, and helps her father build their first home.

Twelve-year-old Abbie and her family are finding the homesteader''s life on the Nebraska plains harder than they ever imagined. Trying to save the money to buy a homestead, Papa is working in town and rarely comes home to visit. Abbie, her sister, two brothers, and their mother live out on their prairie farm, isolated from civilization. Abbie wishes for impossible things: that the family could live in town, that she could own a piano, could attend school, and have friends her own age. But then tragedy strikes and Abbie tortures herself with remorse, no longer sure that she and her family will find the courage and faith to survive.

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 Tiffany does not invite Katie to her Halloween party, the resourceful seven-year old decides to create her own spooky fun by secretly turning a shed into a haunted house. By the author of Mama, Let''s Dance. Original.

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.

Cousins Meghann and Marcie dread the thought of spending the summer with their cousin William almost as much as they dread feeding one of their clients, a snake named Althea.

KT''s friendship with her two best friends is threatened when KT is selected for the talented and gifted program at school.

Abandoned by their mother after the death of their father, three youngsters are determined to keep their situation a secret so that the authorities will not split them up and send them to foster homes.

Despite the assurances of her best friend, Leslie, fifteen-year-old Allison is convinced that she is too ordinary and unattractive to be special to anyone, especially when the boy she likes most of all suddenly becomes involved with Leslie.

Tracy never meant to hurt her best friend.

A fourteen-year-old girl living with her father describes becoming an incest victim.