The peaceful town of Lake Emily will never be the same when Trudy Ploog comes to stay!Mae Morgan's flamboyant art teacher sister, Trudy Ploog, moves to the quiet, rural town of Lake Emily, Minnesota, to be closer to Bert Biddle, her shy, unassuming farmer boyfriend. Everything is perfect and then...the school board cuts the Gifted and Talented program and rumors of more cuts fly. Outraged, Trudy kicks up a whirlwind, beginning with a letter to the paper that questions the very foundation of small-town life--high school sports! Soon the whole town is talking, and Trudy and Bert are put to the test. Meanwhile, the Morgan family is recovering from the loss of a child and the death of a life-long dream as Virginia Morgan helps a father and daughter rediscover life. A hopeful story of facing the challenges of life with courage and learning to see with eyes of grace, Dandelions in a Jelly Jar gently reminds you that the best bouquets are dandelions. "A welcomed new voice in a genre that is begging for novels of this caliber. Bravo."--Ted Dekker, best-selling author of Blink and Thr3e"Traci's books... call my name and soothe my soul." --Jane Kirkpatrick, award-winning author of All Together in One Place and A Name of Her OwnFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
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This book is pretty slow going. The characters are interesting and the story was too but it just seemed to stall out for a while.
This is the 2nd book in the series and while the first book was about Mae and her new husband this book was mostly about her sister Trudy. Trudy's roommate in St. Paul gets engaged and Trudy has a hard time feeling happy for her friend. She had a really hard time finding a good roommate last time. She has been missing her sister so she decided to move to Lake Emily and get a teaching job there and then she'd also be closer to her boyfriend Bert. Things seem to be going great until they hit a rough patch. Bert's mother is not an easy woman to get along with and she and Trudy bump heads. Then an old friend asks Bert to help out with the hockey team and then later with the football team. Bert is happy to help but he doesn't realize how resentful Trudy is of that stolen time. When the school board starts talking about cutting programs Trudy gets upset thinking they are too quick to cut art and music programs but not sports and writes a letter to the editor which sends the whole town into a tizzy. It takes a nasty wind storm and devastation, plus a few apologies from Trudy, to bring them back together.
