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Dairy Queen
By Murdock, Catherine Gilbert
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-61868-307-9
- Publisher
- Houghton
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2006
Gr 7-10 After her father is injured, 15-year-old D.J. Schwenk takes over the lion's share of work on her family's small Wisconsin dairy farm. Between milking cows, mucking out the barn, and mowing clover, this erstwhile jock takes on training Brian, the rival high school's quarterback. A monster crush and a tryout for her own school's football team ensue. D.J., a charming if slightly unreliable narrator, does a good deal of soul-searching while juggling her grinding work...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2006
Tall and strong from tossing bales of hay on her Red Bend, Wisconsin, farm, D.J. Schwenk also has a practical, understatedly humorous voice that drives this first-person memoir of her fifteenth summer. D.J. has shouldered the work of running the family dairy farm since her dad got injured and her brothers went to school on football scholarships, but her routine gets a jolt when she's offered the chance to coach Br...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
