The Good Neighbor (28 page)

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Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

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

17. Tag

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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Cover design by Elsie Lyons

 

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

 

Nathan, Amy Sue.

    The good neighbor: a novel / Amy Sue Nathan. — First edition.

        pages; cm

    ISBN 978-1-250-04858-5 (trade paperback)

    ISBN 978-1-4668-4955-6 (e-book)

    1. Divorced women—Fiction. 2. Man-woman relationships—Fiction. I. Title.

    PS3614.A85G66 2015

    813'.6—dc23

2015019395

 

e-ISBN 9781466849556

 

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First Edition: October 2015