Books with author Barbara Pollard

When fourteen-year-old Charity Carrington discovered she had a talent for sculpture, she felt transformed into quite a different person from the humdrum one she had always thought she was. Ideas about her future--and her past--which were both exciting and alarming, filled her mind, and her temper became uncertain, to say the least. Aunt Joycie, Uncle Steve, and the cousins with whom she lived suddenly became the targets of her harshest words and most uncivilized feelings. Then Derek, the grandson on a neighbor, returned to the village after an absence of three years at a school for special students. to which he had been sent when an inadvertent disclosure on Charity's part implicated him with a thieving gang.