My book would be one I read when I was growing up. I found it in my grandparents basement, so it must have belonged to one of or all of my aunts at one point. It had a seafoam green cover and was about two girls, probably junior high age. I think one moves into the house next door and they become best friends, with extravagantly fun parties and dress up. There's some scene with a pool, like it gets filled with flowers or something? And then one moves away and maybe there was a divorce or single parenting on one side, which made the other family uncomfortable?
Anyway, it was a good book, but I could never remember the name and I'm not so sure I remembered the plot so well either! My more recent book search/memory jogging was when I was updating my Shelfari shelf. I really wanted to add this book I had enjoyed, which featured a few (I thought) key phrases that would surely turn up the book in a google search: New Mexico, peacocks, teacher, environmental land abuse, father is a doctor, seven sisters.
I asked people about it and would search every so often. Then one day I was looking through my books and realized I had already added it. It was Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver. Idiot.

It is a good book, I highly recommend it:) Photo from here.
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