Don't Look and It Won't Hurt by Richard Peck [1973 PAPERBACK] • Avon

Don't Look and It Won't Hurt by Richard Peck

FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION [1973] AVON BOOKS

12th Avon Printing.

Book has wear to cover / creasing to spine; reads like new. 

Sixteen-year-old Carol Patterson is a girl in the in the middle of her sisters, in the middle of her adolescence, in the middle of her family's problems.

It is the early seventies and the world is in turmoil, but hardly anything from the outside ever seems to creep in to effect the Pattersons, who live in half a house at the wrong end of town. But there is turmoil enough in Carol's own life. The family is barely getting by on her mother's waitress salary. Carol's bookishness and shabby clothes make her an outcast. Then Carol's older sister gets pregnant.

Still, in the midst of it all there is Carol's first fledgling romance; her unexpected friendship with the preacher's daughter. And suddenly a door opens, providing Carol with a glimpse of the world outside Claypitts and a glimpse of her own inner strength.

Originally published in 1972, Don't Look and It Won't Hurt was Richard Peck's first novel. It was adapted for the movie Gas/Food/Lodging in 1992.