Here you'll find summaries of each of the books in the Cherry Ames series, as well as information on some of the less-familiar auxiliary items: Cherry's first aid book, a board game, and the annuals--featuring short stories about Cherry--that were published in Great Britain. Click on a title for more information.
Cherry Ames and all her Spencer classmates join the Army Nurse Corps, undergo strenuous basic training, and are sent to work at a base hospital in Panama, where Cherry runs afoul of army regulations.
Still in the Army Nurse Corps with her Spencer hospital unit, Cherry, having been promoted to chief nurse, organizes an evacuation hospital on a Pacific jungle island and is tested under fire.
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.
While deciding what she wants to do after her strenuous army years, Cherry takes a private duty case that involves her in fortunetelling, blackmail, and danger.
When Cherry and her friends move to New York City to join the Visiting Nurse Service and share an apartment in Greenwich Village, Cherry learns about a mysterious recluse in a Victorian mansion.
As she leaves Hilton Clinic one afternoon, Cherry is kidnapped, driven blindfolded to a mysterious location, and forced at gunpoint to help treat a gunshot wound.
Cherry's medical office at a New York department store adjoins the antiques department--where a series of mysterious thefts have cast suspicion on a young widow.
(Alternate title: The Clue of the Faceless Criminal)
Cherry joins the staff of a girls' summer camp in Pennsylvania, where she encounters a man who has been framed for a robbery at a New York loan company and unmasks the true culprit.
(Alternate title: The Case of the Forgetful Patient)
Cherry helps unravel the mysterious problems that triggered the breakdown of a frightened young man whose past is shrouded in mystery.
(Alternate title: Mystery of Rogue's Cave)
When Cherry takes a private duty case on a remote Canadian island, she discovers intrigue and danger involving a smuggling ring and a secret silver mine.
(Alternate title: The Case of the Dangerous Remedy)
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.
Players collect rings from six hospital areas to "graduate" from nursing school.
Cherry Ames Girls Annuals
Cherry's British publisher issued seven Cherry Ames "annuals"--oversized, profusely illustrated anthologies, with full-color pictorial covers and frontispieces. Each includes two new short stories featuring Cherry.
Book Summaries
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