Mysteries
Cherry Ames, nurse extraordinaire, has a variety of adventures in the books in this series. In this one, Cherry is a nurse at a girls’ summer camp, where she helps the girls get along, tends to a variety of nursing duties, and has a mystery to solve.
These old books are favorites from my childhood which have happily been re-released. While the writing is not of particular quality, the books have value as mysteries, variety in setting, and old fashioned nostalgia.
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In this book from 1944, four children have a delightful series of adventures. Cousins/siblings George, Julian, Dick, and Anne have an adventure on an island. Smugglers, kidnapping, shipwrecks, and dungeons combine for a vicarious adventure I certainly wish I could have had as a child.
Like a Brit Bobbsey Twins, this series centers on a self-sufficient group of kids that has plenty of adventures and mysteries to solve. Presented in a way that is fun and unthreatening (despite ideas like kidnapping that could be scary if handled a different way), it is also delightfully free of interfering adults.
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