Book one-hundred-and-thirty-nine: Dairy Queen

Dairy Queen (2006)
Catherine Murdock

Rating: 3.5/5

Excellent; it has a very unique voice. You can actually hear the DJ telling you her story.

There seems to be a sequel (or at least one out in the U.S.), but I'm not sure if I want to read it. I kind of like where this ended... I don't know if I want to watch it fall apart.


D.J. Schwenk, while not really happy, never complains or questions her life on the family's small dairy farm in Wisconsin.



After her father injures himself, the 15-year-old girl must do the farm work almost single-handedly, including milking the cows. She never really noticed the similarities between her life and the lives of the cows.



D.J. is a jock, so on top of all her farm chores, she takes on training Brian, the quarterback on a rival school's football team. The summer they spend together changes everything as D.J. discovers that she has lots to say about her life and what she wants out of it.

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Finished: Thursday 16/8