Dairy Queen is definitely one of my favorite books. It has won the Abraham Lincoln Book Award and is a must for your bookshelf. The trilogy continues with Catherine Gilbert Murdock's second and heart breaking book The Off Season and the last book of the series (newly released) Front and Center. If your a sporty girl you'll adore this book. If not you STILL will.
SUMMARY
D.J. Schwenk lives in Red Bend, Wisconsin on a... you guess it: Dairy Farm. Her dads knee is hurt, her older brothers are at college playing football, her mom works two jobs so D.J. takes care of the farm. That is until Brian Nelson, quarterback of the enemy school, starts to help out. He's obnoxious, and isnt a very good worker. But then sparks fly over they hay fields and D.J. finds herself training him for football. This is the story of a girl finding herself and letting her hair down.
This is Romeo and Juliet in Wisconsin, with cows, but its more comic then tragic -Publishers Weekly
