![]() ![]() ends up coaching Brian Nelson in football, while he coaches her on the advantages of talking more. is doing all of the work alone because her father has broken his hip. In Dairy Queen, the coach of a rival high school sends his spoiled rich-boy quarterback to help out on the Schwenk farm, where D.J. Her younger brother is athletic, too, though he talks so little that his teachers worry about him. Her two older brothers are talented college football players. They aren't stupid, they're just not talkers. is a tall, big-boned girl and a gifted athlete from a family of gifted athletes, but her family is not known for its communication skills. Schwenk books are very, very good: Dairy Queen, The Off Season, and now Front and Center.ĭ.J. I'm also the kid that used to get hit in the head by the ball in any number of sports with names ending in -ball, but who cares? A good book is a good book, and the D.J. I happily set aside my usual diet of books about witches, shapechangers, and dragons when it comes to Catherine Murdock's YA novels about D.J. ![]()
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