Dairy Queen (original 2006; edition 2007)

by Catherine Murdock

Series: Dairy Queen Series (1)

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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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Title:	Dairy Queen
Authors:	Catherine Murdock
Info:	Graphia (2007), Paperback, 288 pages
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Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2006)

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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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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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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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I wanted to love this book more, and for a minute I did....Maybe it was the football? I'm not much for sports fiction. Great characters though, really. (

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nogomu | Oct 19, 2023 |

Love the attitude of this fiesty character! It's fun that it's set in Wisconsin, too. Great read for any Packers fan! (

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ajrenshaw99 | Sep 1, 2023 |

It was okay. I did like the football angle although the romance was slightly weak, but it is a trilogy. I did like how DJ was able to realize that some people are "stuck in their ways" and don't ever branch out or question why, but she questioned it at a young age, instead of doing what she is expected to do. (

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Summer345456 | Jan 25, 2023 |

Starts off a little on the slow side but now I'm hooked and I immediately borrowed the 2 other books in the series. D.J. is just a really nice, awkward, responsible kid trying to figure things out. And she has such a great voice that the poor grammar is charming and not hair-tearing-out since it's part of the style of the book and makes the story even more effective. (

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wonderlande | Jan 1, 2023 |

Quick read, very good. You are totally rooting for this high school girl to make the boys football team in small town WI even before you've finished the first page. Want to read other books by this author, I think she continues this same story. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Catherine Gilbert Murdock	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Moore, Natalie	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Awards

Borders Original Voices (2007)

Buckeye Children's & Teen Book Award (Nominee – Teen – 2008)

Colorado Blue Spruce Award (Nominee – 2009)

Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (Nominee – 2009)

Evergreen Teen Book Award (Nominee – 2009)

Grand Canyon Reader Award (Recommended – Teen (non-voting) – 2009)

Great Lakes Book Award (Winner – Children's – 2007)

Green Mountain Book Award (Nominee – 2009)

Iowa Teen Award (Nominee – 2009)

Isinglass Teen Read Award (Nominee – 2008)

Kentucky Bluegrass Award (Nominee – Grades 9-12 – 2008)

Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Readers' Choice Award (Nominee – 2009)

Nutmeg Book Award (Nominee – Teen – 2009)

Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee – Intermediate – 2009)

Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Winner – Young Adult – 2008)

Rhode Island Teen Book Award (Nominee – 2009)

Sequoyah Book Award (Nominee – Young Adult – 2009)

South Carolina Book Awards (Nominee – Young Adult Book Award – 2009)

South Dakota Teen Choice Book Awards (Nominee – Middle School List – 2009)

Thumbs Up! Award (Honor – 2007)

Utah Beehive Book Award (Nominee – Young Adult – 2008)

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Book Sense Summer Pick Teen Readers (2006)

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Red Bend, Wisconsin, USA

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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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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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