Dairy Queen by Catherine Murdock
Teen Zone Fiction-Main Level
15-year-old D.J. Schwenk takes over the milking chores on her family farm when her father is injured. When heart-throb Brian Nelson, the quarterback of the rival football team, is sent to help out and learn how to work, D.J. is put in charge of teaching him. They start working out (training for football season) together. D.J. acts as the trainer, which becomes awkward when she later decides to try out for her high school football team. Issues of family communication, friendship, loyalty, teenage crushes, and the value of hard work make up this fun teen fiction book.