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Helen Wells
Newest Release
She did not write the Cherry Ames books #10-16, those where written by Julie Campbell Tatham
Full Series List in Order
Cherry Ames
1 - Cherry Ames, Student Nurse (1943)2 - Cherry Ames, Senior Nurse (1944)
3 - Cherry Ames, Army Nurse (1944)
4 - Cherry Ames, Chief Nurse (1944)
5 - Cherry Ames, Flight Nurse (1945)
6 - Cherry Ames, Veterans' Nurse (1946)
7 - Cherry Ames, Private Duty Nurse (1946)
8 - Cherry Ames, Visiting Nurse (1947)
9 - Cherry Ames, Cruise Nurse (1948)
10 - Cherry Ames At Spencer (1949)
11 - Cherry Ames, Night Supervisor (1950)
12 - Cherry Ames, Mountaineer Nurse (1951)
13 - Cherry Ames, Clinic Nurse (1952)
14 - Cherry Ames, Dude Ranch Nurse (1953)
15 - Cherry Ames, Rest Home Nurse (1954)
16 - Cherry Ames, Country Doctor's Nurse (1955)
17 - Cherry Ames, Boarding School Nurse (1955)
18 - Cherry Ames, Department Store Nurse (1956)
19 - Cherry Ames, Camp Nurse (1957)
20 - Cherry Ames At Hilton Hospital (1959)
21 - Cherry Ames, Island Nurse (1960)
22 - Cherry Ames, Rural Nurse (1961)
23 - Cherry Ames, Staff Nurse (1962)
24 - Cherry Ames, Companion Nurse (1964)
25 - Cherry Ames, Jungle Nurse (1965)
26 - Cherry Ames, The Mystery in the Doctor's Office (1966)
27 - Cherry Ames, Ski Nurse Mystery (1968)
Vicki Barr Air Stewardess
1 - Silver Wings for Vicki (1947)2 - Vicki Finds the Answer (1947)
3 - The Hidden Valley Mystery (1948)
4 - The Secret of Magnolia Manor (1949)
5 - The Clue of the Broken Blossom (1950)
6 - Behind the White Veil (1951)
7 - The Mystery at Hartwood House (1952)
8 - Peril Over the Airport (1953)
9 - The Mystery of the Vanishing Lady (1954)
10 - The Search for the Missing Twin (1954)
11 - The Ghost at the Waterfall (1956)
12 - The Clue of the Gold Coin (1958)
13 - The Silver Ring Mystery (1960)
14 - The Clue of the Carved Ruby (1961)
15 - The Mystery of Flight 908 (1962)
16 - The Brass Idol Mystery (1964)
Book List in Order: 44 titles
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Cherry Ames, Student Nurse
- 1943
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Cherry sat cross-legged on her suitcase and tugged. There! The two stubborn locks finally clicked shut. This would make her new uniforms look like accordions and she mourned for the new blue dance dress. But at least they were in. Cherry puffed and w...
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Cherry Ames, Army Nurse
- 1944
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In Army Nurse, Cherry has made the difficult decision facing all her classmates - should she enlist in the military or practice nursing on the homefront? She's graduated from Spencer and earned the right to put "RN" after her name, and as an Army nur...
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Cherry Ames, Chief Nurse
- 1944
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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 ha...
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Cherry Ames, Senior Nurse
- 1944
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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 ha...
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Cherry Ames, Flight Nurse
- 1945
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The United States is still fighting World War II. Cherry Ames is still an Army Nurse, this time aloft--as a flight nurse. Cherry is reunited with her corpsman Bunce--the two of them are in sole charge of ferrying severely wounded men out of the battl...
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Cherry Ames, Private Duty Nurse
- 1946
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Cherry has finally been discharged from the Army and is back to civilian life. What should she do next after her intense years of Army nursing? Dr. Joe finds her a job as the private nurse of a celebrated musician suffering from a dangerous heart con...
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Cherry Ames, Veterans' Nurse
- 1946
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The war is over, and Cherry is sent home. Her new assignment is working in a veteran's hospital, where she finds her biggest challenge in raising the spirits of men who have lost arms, legs, or other body parts. Will they be welcomed back to their fa...
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Cherry Ames, Visiting Nurse
- 1947
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Cherry reunites with her old Spencer classmates Gwen, Bertha, Josie, Vivian, and Mai Lee, when they all decide to take an apartment together in New York City, and work for the Visiting Nurse Service of New York. Greenwish Village is a far cry from Hi...
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Silver Wings for Vicki
- 1947
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Vicki’s chief charm is a genuine interest in people. She finds training classes at Federal Airlines Stewardess School an exciting experience. Then came the glory of graduation, the bustle of publicity parties, and the thrill of her first assignment...
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Vicki Finds the Answer
- 1947
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Returning to New York City on a routine flight from the South, Vicki finds a runaway girl on her plane, Joan Purnell. The young girl’s bewilderment and panic arouse Vicki’s read sympathy. Persuading Joan to return home, Vicki promises to help her...
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Cherry Ames, Cruise Nurse
- 1948
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Worn out from an exhausting year of working as a visiting nurse in New York, Cherry takes a 'vacation' as staff nurse on a two weeks cruise to Curacao. Cherry's working vacation on a glamorous cruise ship entangles her in a search for a h...
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The Secret of Magnolia Manor
- 1949
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Flight stewardess Vicki Barr has a new route from New Orleans to Guatemala City. Her mothers friend found her a place to stay in between runs in the French Quarter of New Orleans. It is an old family house owned by Paul Breaux. The other residents ar...
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Cherry Ames, Boarding School Nurse
- 1955
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Cherry's natural curiosity leads her to discover a secret room in the reconstructed ch‚teau now used as a girls' boarding school. There she finds a formula that when recontructed to its exact specifications produces a perfume that saves the school ...
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Cherry Ames, Department Store Nurse
- 1956
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Cherry's first aid center is adjacent to the antiques department of a large department store, where a series of thefts have pointed the finger of suspicion at a young, recently widowed employee. But Cherry's instincts say otherwise, and her tenacity ...
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Cherry Ames, Camp Nurse
- 1957
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Cherry Ames accepts one of the most interesting jobs of her nursing career when she accepts an assignment at Camp Blue Water, nestled close by a Pennsylvania mountain lake. Whether it is helping twelve-year-old Katy to become a welcome member of...
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The Clue of the Gold Coin
- 1958
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In The Clue of the Gold Coin, flight attendant Vicki Barr jets to Tampa, Florida where she gets entangled in a plot to steal a case of antique gold coins....
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Cherry Ames At Hilton Hospital
- 1959
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One of the strangest cases of Cherry Ames' absorbing career comes her way while working as a staff nurse at Hilton Hospital in her home town. A young man, victim of a highway accident, is brought to Emergency with a broken leg. Shortly after he is ad...
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Cherry Ames, Island Nurse
- 1960
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Little does Nurse Cherry realize when distinguished Sir Ian Barclay is rushed by his nephew Lloyd to Hilton Hospital that her newest case will carry her north to misty, sea-beaten Balfour Island, off the rugged coast of wind-swept Newfoundland. "...
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The Silver Ring Mystery
- 1960
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For young and pretty Vicki Barr, the giant, jet-powered Electra is the most challenging assignment of her career as air stewardess with Federal Airlines. But Vicki’s first flight on the Electra’s coast-to-coast run involves her in a search for...
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Cherry Ames, Rural Nurse
- 1961
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As a public health nurse in Iowa, Cherry works with federal authorities to quash the manufacture and distribution of a bogus remedy and discovers the secret of a decrepit, abandoned farmhouse....
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Cherry Ames, Staff Nurse
- 1962
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When Cherry Ames learns that the new patient in her ward is using the proceeds from her deceased husband's life insurance to speculate in stock, she judges her foolish. And when the young woman explains the Pell Corporation investment program, Cherry...
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The Mystery of Flight 908
- 1962
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Vicki is back to working for Federal while on leave from Worldwide. While in Miami, while resting on the beach, Vicki overhears a possible hijacking plan for one of Federal's flights, it might be even hers. She isn't sure. But after notifying...
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Cherry Ames, Companion Nurse
- 1964
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Cherry's job as nurse to the well-known historical novelist Martha Logan would be an exciting assignment for any young and pretty RN. And it is doubly exciting for Cherry, for when the author goes to England to do research for her next book, Cherry g...
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Cherry Ames, Jungle Nurse
- 1965
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When Cherry Ames is offered a temporary assignment to help establish a health clinic in a small native African village, she sees it as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Not only will she be visiting a strange and exciting part of the world--but, more...
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Cherry Ames, The Mystery in the Doctor's Office
- 1966
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As a doctor's office nurse in New York City, Cherry Ames faces new challenges and makes some extraordinary new friends. First in importance is her dynamo of an employer, Dr. William Fairall. Glamorous theatrical patients flock to his Victorian browns...
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Cherry Ames, Ski Nurse Mystery
- 1968
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Cherry Ames is thrilled to be working in a picturesque ski resort town in the Swiss Alps. The town's only doctor has employed her to assist him in his ten-bed hospital. Within 24 hours after starting her new assignment, Cherry encounters a hostile...
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Complete Mystery Detective of Helen Wells - Clue of the Gold Coin Silver Ring Mystery
Vicki Barr is a popular mystery series for girls published from 1947 to 1964. Helen Wells wrote volumes #1-4 and 9-16, and Julie Campbell Tatham, the creator of Trixie Belden, wrote volumes #5-8. Wells returned to write the series, but the last volum...