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Dairy Queen
ALAN Review, Summer 2007 by Callahan, Megan
Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock Houghton Mifflin, 2006, 275 pp., $16.00 Family/Romance ISBN-13: 978-0-618-68307-9
DJ. Schwenk has always done as she's told. When her older brothers left home after a family fight, she let it happen. When her father had surgery, she took over the family farm. And when Brian Nelson, quarterback of Red Bend's rival football team, begins working at her farm . . . she falls in love.
When Brian first shows up at Schwenk Farm, DJ. is disgusted, but as the two work together, they confide in each other. Soon, they become much more than friends; however, DJ. strains her new relationship with Brian, and with her family, when she makes the Red Bend football team.
Readers will fall in love with D J.'s humor and will relate well to her emotional epiphanies. While initially slow-paced, the story becomes quite interesting as it progresses. For those who think that small-town life is dull, Dairy Queen will offer a new perspective.
Megan Callahan
Bartlett, IL
Copyright Assembly on Literature for Adolescents -- National Council of Teachers of English Summer 2007
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