From the dust jacket:
"You may be a lovely thing in your dreams, but you are strictly repulsive in the A.M., so forget about dances and stag lines, and forget about Jeff Matthews."
This is what Ann Crawford told herself when she got up one dreary morning. It wasn't just the morning that was dreary–it was Ann, too. Why couldn't she be the successful social butterfly that her parents expected? Why must she be so plain looking, so shy and gauche that none of the boys in high school even noticed that she existed? Why, oh why, couldn't she be popular and successful and happy?
Designing was her only ability, and that, she thought, could lead only to a career in which men played no part. What she didn't realize was how soon this career was to start.
After the school's County Fair so many exciting things began happening to Ann that it has taken the author a whole book to describe them all. And it was no fairy godmother who brought them to pass, either. It was Ann herself.
If you have ever felt like an ugly duckling yourself, you will understand Ann's problem and be interested in how she solved it. And you will find that this sincerely written, sprightly story is not just a design for Ann. It is almost a handbook for teen-age living, in novel form.
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