Miss Julia Raises the Roof (Book 19 in the Miss Julia series) by Ann B. Ross 288 pages
Sam has gone to Europe to check out the architecture and artwork of cathedrals, Miss Julia is at home dealing with that busy body Madge Taylor who always tries to horn in and take over. This time she has deviously bought a vacant property next to Hazel Marie and is fixing it up to put a group home for delinquent teenage boys in it! No one checked with the residents before hand to see how they felt about a group home being in their midst. Hazel Marie has the twin baby girls and Lloyd now a sophmore in highschool right next door! Other residents with young children are concerned about it, too! It was just the secretive way they did it and now the residents are seeking legal advice on whether the area is zoned for a group home. No one balks at the need for at risk teenage boys to have a place to live but not in the midst of a residential area, but, it seems there are nefarious purposes behind the cover of a group home. Several town councilmen and the new pastor is all for it, Madge has him sewed up as an ally and she is going around soliciting funds from the wealthy women in town. Miss Julia included and Madge is manipulating in such a dishonest manner and as everyone notices Madge is certainly not putting the group home anywhere near her own residence! Why doesn't she offer to foster a child or two? And as for new pastor Rucker, why doesn't he open the church to the boys if he is such a goody goody? No, all he does is quote Star Wars from the pulpit! Wait till Miss Julia and Mildred who also is well off and not for any such happenings in her neighborhood either get together, the plots they come up with! Another delightful Miss Julia story about steel magnolias not letting themselves be run over by bullies! I recommend this one to young adults on up due to themes that might be uninteresting to the younger set.
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