Dairy Queen

Hi! This is Miss Jo coming to you from the Jacksonville Public Library. I just finished another great book and I thought you might like to check it out.

So grab a DQ cone, sit back, and enjoy Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock.
You would think this book has something do with your local Dairy Queen right here in Jacksonville, Texas. Guess again. Nothing to do with Dairy Queen.

This book is about D.J., a young girl in high school who lives on a dairy farm. The Schwenk Dairy. D.J. lives there with her family of three boys (2 are off at college, 1 who is a couple of years younger than she is) and her mom and dad. Her mom is the principal at the high school. The boys in the family are very athletic and were some of the greatest football players while they were at school.

D.J. has to run the farm all summer because her dad hurt his hip. Milking twice a day is hard work; not to mention cutting, baling, and putting the hay in the barn; but D.J. and her younger brother do it all without complaining.

The coach of the rival football team is a friend of the Schwenks and he asks D.J. to train their quarterback (Brian) over the summer. D.J. decides to help, hoping no one from school finds out that she is really helping the rival team. by training the quarterback. D.J. finds that she really enjoys training Brian, and she decides to try out for the football team at her school. This will be a first for her school: a girl on the team. Will they go along with this?

The trouble with all of this is that D.J. has fallen in love with Brian and they will be on rival football teams once school starts. (D.J. never got around to telling Brian that she is going out for football.) How will Brian take the news that the girl who has been training him all summer is now going to be playing football against him? How will D.J.'s family take the news that she will be playing football like her brothers? Will D.J. and Brian ever be friends again?

There is a lot of family drama in this book! Check it out and enjoy.

See you at the library!