Book 6, by Helen Wells
Illustrated by Ralph Crosby Smith
Grosset & Dunlap, 1946
"Even though they're finished with war on the battlefields," she realized, "the war is still a very personal thing to them--their fight to recover."
--From Cherry Ames, Veterans' Nurse, p. 30
With the war over, Cherry must adjust to peacetime as she returns home to nurse at a veterans' rehabilitation hospital for the remainder of her enlistment period.
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Chapter 4: April Fool
Chapter 5: A Little Boy
Chapter 6: Midge's Big Romance
Cherry's patient Jim Travers names his crutches Ike and Mike; when Gwen Jones breaks her ankle in "Christmas in New York," she bestows the same names on her crutches.
Chapter 7: First Test
Chapter 8: Week End
The Ameses' family car is named Nellie; they always name their cars (p. 113). When Cherry buys her own car, she names it Bouncing Bess (Clinic Nurse, p. 1).
Chapter 9: Clues
Chapter 10: A Turn for the Better
An outstanding movie that treats the same theme of veterans readjusting to peacetime is The Best Years of Our Lives, released in 1946, starring Frederic March, Dana Andrews, and Harold Russell as three returning WWII vets.
Chapter 11: Wade Comes to Town
Chapter 12: Strange Story
Chapter 13: Midnight Discovery
Though doctors have previously been described in the most glowing, heroic terms, here a doctor is revealed as the villain; it's almost as though, after the seemingly clear-cut moral choices of wartime, the world has suddenly become a bit murkier in peacetime, and even doctors can be corrupt.
Cherry Ames, Veterans' Nurse
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