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Agatha Donkar Lund
Sep 18, 2007 rated it really liked it
Shelves: 2007, fiction, young-adult
I actually read The Off-Season, Murdock's sequel to Dairy Queen, before I read this, but I'd actually recommend reading them in order. (I read them in the order I could get them from the library.) This is just a really wonderful book -- DJ Scwenk is the third child in a family of four on a failing dairy farm in Wisconsin, and her two older brothers are D-1 football players who aren't currently talking to the rest of the family, although nobody will talk about why they're not talking to the fami ...more
Meghan
Jul 25, 2011 rated it liked it
this book grew on me. I don't know if I'd say it moooooooooo-ved me (ha. ha. Sorry. cheap cow humor), but it certainly was charming and fresh. At first the FMC seemed a little... well... repetetive and (I hate to say it) dumb. I liked the angsty family, and the drama related there, but I really did feel like her parents were taking terrible advantage (even sabotaging her future) their daughter. I'm still not entirely convinced that her father shouldn't put everyone out of their misery, and sell ...more
EmJay
Jan 09, 2008 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: young-adult
Kim DeCina
Feb 14, 2013 marked it as to-read
Erica
Jun 08, 2014 marked it as to-read
Snowtulip
Apr 30, 2017 rated it really liked it
Shelves: sports, 3-5-stars, audio, ya
Anika
Dec 21, 2017 rated it really liked it