Don't Look and It Won't Hurt

by Richard Peck

Book Overview

Carol Patterson is a sixteen-year-old girl beset with problems. She feels lonely and unpoular at school. Her quiet bookishness and shabby clothes make her something of an outcast. Her mother can... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805063161
• ISBN13: 9780805063165
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Fighting Against the Odds

She has no father to speak of. Her mother, who works hard but gets nowhere, is skilled at trying to be in charge, but not at being close or understanding. Her older teenage sister, who does pretty much as she pleases, turns into an unwed mother. Only her little sister is close to her. Carol doesn't particularly like her town or her school or herself, but you'll find her open and honest and her story very moving. [Realistic fiction suitable for junior high to high school.] A Non-Workbook, Non-Textbook Approach to Teaching Language Arts: Grades 4 Through 8 and Up

Read it as a kid and still love it

I read this book when I was bearly a teenage and fell in love with it. Every teenager goes through the same feelings and worries Carol does about "fitting in". This book helps to show that growing up we all have the same worries and fears, and the only person you have to worry about liking you is you. If you can like who you are, then what everyone else thinks about you is meaningless. It is definitely worth reading. I still have my copy and will pull it out once and a while to read it again. When my children get older, I want them to read it too!

Don't Look and it Wont Hurt

A readers first impression of Don't Look and it wont Hurt by Richard Peck, is if you are a teenager, you could identify with the normal problems teenagers do. This is a book of suspense and courage. This is a great book and I encourage you to read it. Claypitts, known as the "Pearl of the Prairie," is where the Patterson's live. Liz the youngest, Carol in the middle, and the oldest is Ellen. Claypitts is the kind of town you drive right through and don't even notice. Even thought it is small it still has its share of problems. Kids using drugs and teenagers getting pregnant. Carol Patterson is a girl in the middle; in the middle of her sisters, in the middle of her adolescence, and in the middle of her families many problems. At Carol's high school her shyness and ragged clothes maker her outcast. When Carol and Liz get together her shyness goes away. They let their imaginations take them places they've never been before. An unexpected turn happens in Carol's life when she finds out her older sister Ellen is pregnant. Through it all Carol changes in a way she has never changed before. Don't Look and it won't hurt; in my opinion is a great book. Anyone could read it even if you aren't the best of readers. It has a satisfying ending which you will love. Don't Look and it Wont Hurt will touch you with its honesty and sensitivity.

Tough life her sister gets pregnant, but she's poor !!!!!!!

I found this book to be nothing but good. It was very good, and even though the ending was like shortened it's ok. The book is about a girl who's family is not to rich and her sister gets pregnant. The teenage girl Carol is like and outsider and is not popular at all. She later on meets a boy and becomes very close. She now is enteracting with other people and actually has friends. Once you start reading this book you won't be able to put it down. At the end you find your self wishing the author had written more, I for one read slow so that I could still have it iguess I was quite attatched. You'll enjoy it! I reccomend this book to everyone young and old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!