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Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
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    Playing With the Boys (Pretty Tough) by Liz Tigelaar (Caramellunacy)
    Caramellunacy: Both stories are about girls who end up playing football with the boys. Playing with the Boys is about a girl who uses her soccer skills to become kicker when she doesn't get a spot on the soccer team. Dairy Queen is about DJ learning how to be herself - which includes playing football with the boys.… (more)
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    Catching Jordan by Miranda Kenneally (Caramellunacy)
    Caramellunacy: Another high school girl playing football with the boys - and with a crush on her rival. I enjoyed both, though Dairy Queen is more coming of age and Catching Jordan is more of a romance.
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    Devilish by Maureen Johnson (jbarry)
    jbarry: quirky teens at their best!
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    Gingerbread by Rachel Cohn (Fluffybookfaerie)
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    Bad Kitty by Michele Jaffe (jbarry)
    jbarry: fabulously realistic teen narrators!
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    Monsoon Summer by Mitali Perkins (missmaddie)
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    A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly (Caramellunacy)
    Caramellunacy: Dairy Queen and A Northern Light are both about a young woman doing something unconventional that leads her to reexamine her family relationships. In A Northern Light, it's the protagonist's love of words and writing. Both stories have a similar feel with regard to the girls' relationship with their father and the burdens their rural lives place on their dreams to be different.… (more)
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A much better book than it looked like, and deserves a better title, too! Written as the English assignment that will let her graduate, DJ writes about how she's been missing school to hold her family's farm together, how her brother never opens his mouth, how her father would freak out if she joined the boys' football team (which she does), how she has a crush on a rich boy doing community service on her farm, and a lot of other things she hasn't been able to tell anyone. A lot of funny moments, and the author definitely knows what it's like to grow up in a small farming town! ( )
  rin.wilson | Apr 20, 2013 |
The main character is great. She's interesting, funny, brutally honest and real. Her family situation is tough, the story was well-paced and it dealt with some major issues, coming out, family disfunction, all in a straight-forward, non-sappy, non-judgemental manner. Really enchanted and completely underrated.

Side note - this book suffered the dreaded hard cover to QP cover change. The hard cover is awesome, a cow with a freaking tiara. The QP looks like a Mag Cabot. Not that that is a bad thing just annoying, why mess with a good thing? ( )
  akmargie | Apr 4, 2013 |
People don’t expect me to be a football fan, but I am. So I enjoyed the football aspect. And D.J.’s voice is so great that, despite my personal reservations about girls playing football, I was totally charmed by this book. [Feb. 2010] ( )
  maureene87 | Apr 4, 2013 |
June 24-25, 2012

Love this book, especially the audio! So very very cute! I found D.J. to be incredible relate-to-able, even though she's a farm girl who plays football and I'm a city girl who was in math club. :P No serious, I was... NERD! Anyway, great great book and a great beginning to the trilogy!

August 31, 2009

I started listening to this book last night while making dinner, intending to put it down afterward... but I just couldn't stop listening! I was up REALLY LATE... Eek! But it was a REALLY good book! And I loved the narrator's (probably fake) Wisconsin accent! Awesome! On the surface, this book may seem to be mostly about cows and football, but really, it's a great story about family, friendship, and communication. I thoroughly enjoyed it! ( )
  saraferrell | Apr 3, 2013 |
DJ Schwenk is a teenage girl growing up on a dairy farm in rural Wisconsin. Her family suffers from a lack of communication and the departure of her two older brothers, along with her father's hip surgery, have put even more strain on DJ. Her workload at school is overwhelming when she adds in all the work she has to do to keep the family farm running. [b:Dairy Queen|16178|Dairy Queen (Dairy Queen, #1)|Catherine Gilbert Murdock|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166719842s/16178.jpg|564970] chronicles a few weeks of her summer vacation...if you can call it a vacation.

If you have to listen to professors talk about stuff like substantive due process and prescriptive easements for 3-4 hours a night, this is the type of audiobook to listen to on the way there and back. Honestly, my heart was so warmed up by the time I got there every night that I could handle it with no complaints. And the narrator had a pretty good (not perfect)Wisconsin accent. It made me miss my friends from the midwest a ton. (Especially you, Maureen-who-only-occasionally-signs-on-goodreads-and-who-I-promise-to-call-back-soon!) It also made me miss my NCCC days, where we worked hard, worked out a lot, and sweat a ton. I miss going out to do something where I could see visible results and feel good after the fact. I miss working outside and I was (dare I say it) jealous of the farm work DJ had to do.

Anyway, this book is adorable. DJ is adorable. And I definitely recommend this book to anyone who likes a realistic YA book.

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  FlanneryAC | Mar 31, 2013 |
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To James, and Liz, and Mr. Webster
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This whole enormous deal wouldn’t have happened, none of it, if Dad hadn’t messed up his hip moving the manure spreader.
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It's like you're a cow. And one day in about fifty years they're going to put you on a truck and take you away to die and you're not even going to mind that either.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0618863354, Paperback)

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. can’t help admitting, maybe he’s right.

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

Stuff like why her best friend, Amber, isn’t so friendly anymore. Or why her little brother, Curtis, never opens his mouth. Why her mom has two jobs and a big secret. Why her college-football-star brothers won’t even call home. Why her dad would go ballistic if she tried out for the high school football team herself. And why Brian is so, so out of her league.

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

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

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