Dairy Queen

By Catherine Gilbert Murdock format: young adult softcover publication: June 2007 ISBN: 9780618863358

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Fifteen-year-old D.J. Schwenk is not booky, brilliant, or blessed with supernatural powers, unlike most teen-lit heroines these days, and that's what I loved about her. After her brothers leave for college and her father is in an accident, D.J. is put in charge of running the family dairy farm. When she decides to try out for the football team--despite the fact that she's a girl, and her father will kill her, and her crush is the star quarterback of the rival team--everything comes to a head. Murdock's portrait of a family that doesn't talk and of a tomboy whose only outlet is football is realistic and often sad, but also a funny, entertaining read.

When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.

Harsh words indeed, from Brian Nelson of all people. But D.J. Schwenk can't help admitting to herself that maybe he's right. Because it's obvious that no one is talking about why D.J.'s best friend, Amber, isn't so friendly anymore. Or why her little brother, Curtis, never opens his mouth. Or why her mom has two jobs and a big secret, or why her college-football-star brothers won't even call home nowadays. And certainly no one is talking about how D.J.'s dad would go ballistic on her if she tried out for the football team. There's definitely not a lot being said. And that's not even mentioning the many reasons that Brian Nelson is so out of D.J.'s league.

Welcome to the summer that fifteen-year-old D.J. Schwenk of Red Bend, Wisconsin, learns to talk, and ends up having an awful lot of stuff to say.

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