Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her. Summary: After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school’s rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:ĭairy queen : a novel / by Catherine Gilbert Murdock. Originally published in the United States by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2006.įor information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to or to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 3 Park Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, New York 10016. now I've got more to look forward to.) Read moreĬopyright © 2006 by Catherine Gilbert MurdockĪll rights reserved. I absolutely loved her, and the book both! (Didn't know it was a series until I went to write this review. Throw into the mix her own secret decision to play on her schools football team, and she's got one complicated life to figure out.DJ is one of those teen novel protagonists who are super smart and tough as nails in some ways, while still sort of innocent and vulnerable in other ways. And then her life gets more complicated when she and Brian start to kinda-sorta like each other. The last thing she needs is for their great family friend, (who is the coach of her school's rival football team), to ask her of all people to train, Brian, one of his players, on their farm during the summer.

That leaves DJ to run the farm - while going to high school, where she's failing English. Her mother is bogged down trying to work two jobs, and her demanding father has had a hip operation, and can't do the work on the family's dairy farm. Her younger brother, Curtis, rarely speaks. Her two older brothers have left home for college and never call or write. 15-year-old DJ Schwenk is having a rough time.

Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock