Patricia Hermes
Patricia Hermes
Patricia Hermes, born in 1950 in Brooklyn, New York, is an accomplished author known for her engaging storytelling and compelling characters. With a background in education, she has dedicated her career to inspiring young readers through her works. Her writing often reflects her keen interest in history and human experiences, making her a respected figure in children's and young adult literature.
Personal Name: Patricia Hermes
Patricia Hermes Books
(29 Books)
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.
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.
During the autumn of the year, thirteen-year-old Sarah learns her mother is dying of cancer.
For anyone who has ever dreamed of hearing a horse's story . . .Independence, Missouri, 1846Koda 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!From the Trade Paperback edition.
After her mother dies, thirteen-year-old Amy Alden comes to live with her eccentric inventor father on a farm in Canada, and the two of them grow closer as they raise a group of young goslings and help them learn to migrate. Inspired by the story of Bill Lishman.
When eleven-year-old Sam visits her grandfather's ranch for the first time, she finds a new life very different from the one she has known with her vagabond mother and discovers what really matters most to her.
Abandoned by their mother after the death of their father, three youngsters are determined to keep their situation a secret so that the authorities will not split them up and send them to foster homes.
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.
To prove to her parents that she is grown up enough to babysit, Alex tries to stay out of trouble for two weeks.
Kevin and his friend Bailey conspire to prevent Kevin's father from moving himself and Kevin once again.
Salem, 1692. Devils and witches are an accepted fact of life and religion. When some girls in the village begin having fits and tremors, their torments are attributed to the action of witches. Elizabeth Putnam and her parents are different from many of the other village folk, and they doubt the superstitions that terrify the town. As Elizabeth struggles to find her way among the alarming events, she also finds herself at odds with George, her best friend and companion since babyhood. Things come to a head when Elizabeth herself is accused of witchcraft, and George must make a difficult choice between what his community believes and what he knows to be true.
Eleven-year-old Blessing has lived with her grandmother in a cabin in the Tennessee mountains since she was two years old, secure in a relationship of love and shared music, but now she has to accept that her grandmother is dying and that she must continue life without her in a new home.
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.
In 1610, ten-year-old Elizabeth continues a journal of her experiences living in Jamestown, as her brother Caleb rejoins the family, a new strict governor comes to the colony, and her father considers remarriage.
Late in 1848, nine-year-old Joshua McCullough starts a second journal, this time recording events in Willamette Valley, Oregon Territory, as his family and others they met on the trail begin to get settled.
In 1848, nine-year-old Joshua Martin McCullough writes a journal of his family's journey from Missouri to Oregon in a covered wagon. Includes a historical note about westward migration.
Through the changing seasons on Hairy Bear Mountain and her father's illness, Hallie continues to wish for her father's health and a china doll's head from a store window in town.
Elizabeth Barker continues to write to her "friend," her diary, as disease and lack of food further plague the suffering settlers at Jamestown.
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.
In this book, Joshua's diary comes to an end with stories of life in Oregon, his sister lost in the woods, and Joshua starting school.
Tracy's long friendship with unconventional Kelly is strained when Tracy's new friends put pressure on her to choose between them.
Emily likes to play baseball and tease her brother, but her happy life is interrupted when her brother has a fatal accident.
A fourteen-year-old girl living with her father describes becoming an incest victim.
