TY  - BOOK
AU  - Strout,Allison Weiser
TI  - Next door to happy
SN  - 9780823450862
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Holiday House
KW  - Only child
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Single-parent families
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - Neighbors
KW  - Siblings
KW  - Families
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Brothers and sisters
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Family life
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - "Margaret Ferguson Books."; Ages 9 to 12; Holiday House; Grades 4-6; Holiday House
N2  - Twelve-year-old Violet Crane is the only child in a broken home, with a mother who is increasing scared of leaving the house, so when a new family with five boisterous children (and a dog) moves in next door she is convinced that they must be the happiest family in the whole world; they cheerfully include Violet in their games but, as school starts, she becomes aware that even happy families have their problems, and that twelve-year-old Reggie (the quiet one) may need Violet's friendship just as much as she needs his
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