7. Izzy, Bruce, and Mrs. Feldman all have new living arrangements by the end of the book. How important is a new house to a new start? Can a home have too much emotional baggage?
8. Despite Izzy’s warnings, Rachel ends up taking things a bit too far with her old flame Jeremy. To what extent is catching up with an old ex acceptable?
9. Has your best friend ever kept an important secret from you? Can a friendship properly mend after a major betrayal?
10. Who is the good neighbor? Is it Mrs. Feldman or Izzy?
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About the Author
AMY SUE NATHAN lives and writes near Chicago, where she hosts the award-winning Women’s Fiction Writers blog. She has been published in the Chicago Tribune, Writer’s Digest, The New York Times, the Washington Post online, and The Huffington Post, among many others. Amy has two grown children and is busy writing her next novel. Visit her at amysuenathan.com. Or sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
1. The Banana Song
2. Pick-Up Sticks
3. Red Light, Green Light
4. Kerplunk
5. Baby in the Air
6. Freeze Tag
7. Mousetrap
8. Miss Mary Mack
9. Double Dutch
10. Battleship
11. Whisper Down the Lane
12. Bombardment
13. I Spy
14. Chinese Jump Rope
15. Musical Chairs
16. London Bridge
18. Halfball
19. Tensies
20. Monkey in the Middle
21. Trouble
22. Hide-and-Seek
23. Duck, Duck, Goose
24. Charades
25. Truth or Dare
26. Mystery Date
27. Olly Olly Oxen Free
Acknowledgments
Discussion Questions
About the Author
Also by Amy Sue Nathan
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
THE GOOD NEIGHBOR. Copyright © 2015 by Amy Nathan Gropper. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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The good neighbor: a novel / Amy Sue Nathan. — First edition.
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First Edition: October 2015