This is possibly my favourite book of the year, until Breaking Dawn is released.
After her father is injured, 15-year-old D.J. Schwenk takes over the lion's share of work on her family's small Wisconsin dairy farm. Between milking cows, mucking out the barn, and mowing clover, this erstwhile jock takes on training Brian, the rival high school's quarterback. A monster crush and a tryout for her own school's football team ensue.
DJ is a realistic and charming narrator, and the author does a fantastic job of getting her personality across. Shy, tongue-tied, hardworking and honest, DJ is forced to think about what she really wants for her life when her totally unsuitable crush, Brian, tells her that she's like a cow headed unquestioningly down the cattle shoot of life. Over the summer, DJ wrestles with this question while simultaneously juggling a grinding farm chore schedule, an uncommunicative and conflicted family, and a best friend who turns out to be gay. In the end, DJ is able to find her own way, and readers will be won over by her heart of gold. This book is highly recommended for fans of realistic fiction, sports stories, and even romances.
Fiction
Grades 9-12
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2 comments:
yeah, okay-ish book, beginning was kinda slow though
I agree, but I kind of liked that about the book. The main character wasn't a superhero, or really smart, or fast paced; she *was* slow, but she had a lot of great characteristics that authors don't normally give their protagonists. Definitely not a page turner, though, you're right.
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