Leave Well Enough Alone - Tapa blanda

In 1956, fourteen-year-old Dorothy, a sheltered Catholic girl from a lower middle class background, finds her summer job with a wealthy but troubled family in the Pennsylvania countryside a great strain on her resourcefulness and maturity.

Rosemary Wells is the author of 120 books for children, including more than 40 about the beloved bunnies Max and Ruby. She travels all over the country as a tireless advocate for literacy. Wells was born in New Jersey to a playwright father and ballet dancer mother who encouraged her artistic bent. She worked as an art director and designer before illustrating her first book. She is the mother of two grown daughters, Victoria and Marguerite, and grandmother to four girls.