Best Selling Books by Patricia Hermes

Vada has problems with her new stepmother and her friends.

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.

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.

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

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.

Tracy never meant to hurt her best friend.

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

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

A 10-year-old girl staying with her grandparents for the summer is appalled to discover that her parents'' prolonged stay abroad means that she must start in a new school and somehow hide the fact that she is an epileptic.

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.

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

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!

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.

Emily likes to play baseball and tease her brother, but her happy life is interrupted when her brother has a fatal accident.

In this sequel to "Kevin Corbett Eats Flies," Bailey runs for class president hoping that popularity will secure her place in her current foster home.