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This is the summer that fifteen-year-old D. J. Schwenk, expert at cows and football, learns an awful lot about love and life.
A farmgirl who loves football a football playing farmer who loves the Food Network a mother who loves her career a nerd who loves cheerleading and an all-star athlete who loves dentistry D.J. describes them all in her modest, funny, and honest voice.
D.J. Schwenk, a 16-year-old living on her family s farm in Wisconsin, comes from a family of football stars. Football is so important in her family that even the cows are named after famous football players. The Schwenks may excel in football but they definitely don t excel in communication. D.J. recognizes that her family does not discuss important issues and decides she must search for the strength to look for greener pastures in her own life. When she finds the courage to do what really makes her happy, she discovers passions in the people she loves and learns to appreciate each more fully.
If you ask 15-year-old tomboy D.J. Schwenk, summer is off to a lousy start. But, since she's not real big on talking and neither is anyone in her family no one's likely to hear or understand her complaints. D.J. is saddled with all the chores at the Schwenk dairy farm while her father recuperates from an injury, her mother takes on extra work at the local school and her older, football-legend brothers stay away from home due to a family rift. Then Brian Nelson, the conceited quarterback from D.J.'s rival high school, is assigned by his coach (and Schwenk family friend) to help out on the farm. Sparks of all kinds, and cow pies, fly as D.J. and Brian eventually bond over work and football, and D.J. tries out for her own school's varsity team. Moore does an excellent job of mastering a natural, Midwestern accent that whisks listeners right to Wisconsin. She's wholly believable as a teenager struggling with attitudes about first love, friendship, gender and sexuality, self-confidence and sports. Ages 12-up. (May) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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Zsigmond Zsolt
reviewed Dairy Queen on April 27, 2010
Dairy Queen
After being burned MANY times by crap YA books, I made a decision to only read those that at some point earned critical recognition (if I judged books by GR reviewer's ratings, I suspect I would have to work my way through nonsense like Hush, Hush, Evermore, and The Luxe and I am not sure I am up for it any more). Dairy Queen made it to ALA's list of best YA books in 2007, so I decided to give it a try in spite of the awful cover and title. I was not disappointed.
15-year-old D.J. is forced to take over the lion's share of work on her family's small dairy farm after her father is injured. She is overwhelmed by milking, cleaning out the barn, mowing and haying, with almost no help but her younger brother's. In fact she is so overwhelmed, that she doesn't realize that her life at the moment has no direction or point. This is pointed to her by a lazy and arrogant Brian, the rival high school's quarterback, who is sent to D.J.'s farm to help her out, learn work ethics, and get some football training. Strangely enough, Brian has something to teach D.J. too - to look at her life style closer, to do some soul-searching, to become a better communicator.
I can't say that Dairy Queen is a mind-blowing kind of book. It's not really edgy or a dark "issue book." And that's a good thing. This is a novel about balancing family responsibilities and personal desires, about what it is to be a good person, and about importance of open communication in a family. D.J. is a very likable narrator, self-deprecating, hard-working, honest. She, along with the rest of the characters, feels very real and relatable. The teen romance is very well done too. It is realistic, doesn't overwhelm the story and never becomes cheesy or sappy, which is very important to me. I will undoubtedly read the next book in this 3-part series.
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