![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() John’s University in New York in 1957 as a speech and English major and began teaching junior high school English and social studies. During the required months of bed rest, she recalled, she fell in love with both reading and music. 21, 1936, in Brooklyn, the third of four children of Fred and Jessie (Gould) Martin. Reviewing “Emma Dilemma and the Soccer Nanny” in 2008, Booklist noted the title character’s “desire to be best at something” and the book’s “messages about the importance of honesty and communication as well as the challenges and unexpected rewards of compromise.” One of her favorite series, she once said, were the seven Emma Dilemma books, about a trouble-prone girl with four siblings and numerous pets. “Freedom’s Wings: Corey’s Underground Railroad Diary” (2001), for instance, was narrated by a young black man. They include “Salem Witch” (2006), written from the viewpoints of two children living through the 17th-century Massachusetts witch trials, and “The Brothers’ War” (2005), about Virginia cousins on opposite sides of the Civil War.įrom 2000 to 2003, she wrote six books in the “My America” series, including “Our Strange New Land” and “The Starving Time,” both subtitled “Elizabeth’s Jamestown Colony Diary.” Her narrators were most often girls or young women, but not always. Among them were contributions to the “My Side of the Story” series, which recounts historic events from two points of view. Hermes was the author of some 50 books during her four-decade writing career. ![]()
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