false <![CDATA[The Off Season]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176744169m/649514.jpg 649514 5 Life is looking up for D.J. Schwenk. She's in eleventh grade, finally. After a rocky summer, she's reconnecting in a big way with her best friend, Amber. She's got kind of a thing going with Brian Nelson, who's cute and popular and smart but seems to like her anyway. And then there's the fact she's starting for the Red Bend High School football team&#8212;the first girl linebacker in northern Wisconsin, probably. Which just shows you can't predict the future. As autumn progresses, D.J. struggles to understand Amber, Schwenk Farm, her relationship with Brian, and most of all her family. As a whole herd of trouble comes her way, she discovers she's a lot stronger than she&#8212;or anyone&#8212;ever thought. This hilarious, heartbreaking and triumphant sequel to the critically acclaimed Dairy Queen takes D.J. and all the Schwenks from Labor Day to a Thanksgiving football game that you will never forget. 635653 book 2007 The Off Season total:1025|5:303|4:425|3:243|2:46|1:10| 1025 4036 1451 251 5 2 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jul 08 16:44:27 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 26 12:14:22 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jan 11 02:39:41 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 14:34:51 -0800 2009 Dairy Queen, so I was very eager to read The Off Season. It took a lot of turns I didn't expect, which makes it hard for me to review it, because as always I don't want to spoil the surprises for anyone else.

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What I love the most is that I never felt I was simply reading about a character's reactions to a set ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 21 08:26:40 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 08:26:40 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 11:14:30 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 11:18:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 13 13:46:22 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 22:28:05 -0700 2009 The Off Season is the sequel to Murdock’s Dairy Queen which I read a couple years ago. I was excited when I saw that Murdock had written a follow-up book because I really enjoyed Dairy Queen. That said, I have mixed feelings about The Off Season.
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