Cherry Ames is a popular book series for girls published by Grosset & Dunlap from 1943 to 1968. Helen Wells (1910-1986) wrote volumes #1-8 and 17-27, and Julie Campbell Tatham (1908-1999) wrote volumes #9-16.

The series stars a job-hopping, mystery-solving nurse in the Nancy Drew mold, named Cherry Ames. The series was created to encourage girls to enter the nursing profession during World War II, with the third book in the series Army Nurse having Cherry joining the Army Nurse Corps.

Cherry Ames books that are in near mint condition have sold for up to $300 dollars each on eBay. A new edition of the timeless classic, "Cherry Ames, Student Nurse" had been released by the Palm Healthcare Foundation, Inc., through its Palm Publishing LLC subsidiary. Proceeds from the sale of the books were used to support nursing scholarships. That edition is no longer available.

The first four books in the series ("Student Nurse," "Senior Nurse," "Army Nurse," and "Chief Nurse") were reprinted in a deluxe hardcover edition by Springer Publishing Company in October 2005, and are available as a boxed set. In 2006, books five to eight in the series ("Flight Nurse", "Veterans' Nurse", "Private Duty Nurse", and "Visiting Nurse") will also be published as a deluxe hardcover boxed set.

Books in the series

• Student Nurse
• Senior Nurse
• Army Nurse
• Chief Nurse
• Flight Nurse
• Veterans' Nurse
• Private Duty Nurse
• Visiting Nurse
• Cruise Nurse
• At Spencer
• Night Supervisor
• Mountaineer Nurse
• Clinic Nurse
• Dude Ranch Nurse
• Rest Home Nurse
• Country Doctor's Nurse
• Boarding School Nurse
• Department Store Nurse
• Camp Nurse: The Clue of the Faceless Criminal
• At Hilton Hospital: The Case of the Forgetful Patient
• Island Nurse: Mystery of Rogue's Cave
• Rural Nurse: The Case of the Dangerous Remedy
• Staff Nurse
• Companion Nurse
• Jungle Nurse
• The Mystery in the Doctor's Office
• Ski Nurse Mystery

Companion volumes

• Book of First Aid and Home Nursing

Holiday specials

• Cherry Ames Girls Annual, 1958
• Cherry Ames Girls Annual, 1959
• Cherry Ames Girls Annual, 1960
• Cherry Ames Girls Annual, 1961
• Cherry Ames Girls Annual, 1962
• Cherry Ames Girls Annual, 1963
• Cherry Ames Girls Annual, 1964

Board games

• Cherry Ames' Nursing Game

External links

• "Cherry Ames, My Daughter Will See You Now" New York Times April 6, 2006
• The Cherry Ames Page
• Cherry Ames, Nurse
• Grosset and Dunlap
• Cherry was the Apple of our Eye by Ruth M. Kleinpell, RN, PhD
• Palm Healthcare Foundation, Inc. announcement that Cherry Ames, Student Nurse is no longer available
• Springer Publishing Company
• The Cherry Ames Nursing Stories 1-4 (Box Set) Deluxe Hardcover Edition

Characters in written fiction | Series of books | Fictional nurses | Army nurses | Mystery books | Mystery series