title: A Change Of Heart
author: Pinianski, Patricia
description: IT WAS MOST DEFINITELY THE PITS!
  
  Channing had moved to a new neighborhood. She had been transferred to a new school. She had been forced to leave all her old friends and familiar routines. Her widowed mother had acquired a dominating new male friend who seemed to be running their lives. Worse yet, he had an attractive son, Rod, another Mr. Know-It-All, who appeared to be cut from the same cloth. Why couldn't they leave her alone -- vanish from the earth, never to be seen again? How would she ever get this bossy boy out of her hair -- and out of her heart?