Most Popular Books by Patricia Hermes

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.

Vada has problems with her new stepmother and her friends.

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.

Tracy never meant to hurt her best friend.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

A story of the death of a parent and its effect on a family.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

The novelization of this thrilling family adventure from Columbia Pictures, starring Jeff Daniels and Anna Paquin (The Piano), tells the story of a father and daughter who "teach" a gaggle of orphaned geese how to fly and migrate for the winter. Based on a true story.