TY - BOOK AU - Fowler,Therese Anne TI - A good neighborhood SN - 9781432872601 AV - PS3606.O857 G66 2020b U1 - 813/.6 23 PY - 2020/// CY - Thorndike, ME PB - Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company KW - Racism KW - Fiction KW - Neighbours KW - Teenagers KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Racially mixed families KW - Interracial dating KW - North Carolina KW - Large type books KW - Domestic fiction KW - lcgft KW - Social problem fiction N2 - "In North Carolina's tight-knit Oak Knoll neighborhood, professor Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son, Xavier, who is headed to college in the fall. All is well until the Whitmans, an apparently traditional family, move in next door. Popular local businessman Brad had new money, ambition, a wife who escaped her upbringing in a trailer park, and a secretly troubled teenaged daughter. With little in common except a property line, these two very different families quickly find themselves at odds: first, over an historic oak tree in Valerie's yard, and soon after, the blossoming romance between their two teenagers"--Page 4 of cover ER -