About this title: 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 readers will never forget.
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Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Former Library book. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Graphia
Date Published: 2008-03-18
ISBN-13:9780618934935ISBN:0618934936
Description: Acceptable. Some damage to the cover but integrity still intact, binding slightly damaged but integrity still intact, possible writing in margins, possible underlining and highlighting of text. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Date Published: 2007-06-04
ISBN-13:9780618686957ISBN:0618686959
Description: Good. Minimal damage to the cover, dust jacket not necessarily included minimal wear to binding, majority of pages undamaged, minimal to no highlighting/underlining of text, no missing p. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Graphia
Date Published: 2008-03-18
ISBN-13:9780618934935ISBN:0618934936
Description: Very good. Very minimal damage to the cover (no holes or tears, only minimal scuff marks), in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, minimal to no highlighting/under. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Date Published: 2007-06-04
ISBN-13:9780618686957ISBN:0618686959
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Date Published: 2007-06-04
ISBN-13:9780618686957ISBN:0618686959
Description: Very good. Very minimal damage to the cover (no holes or tears, only minimal scuff marks), in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, minimal to no highlighting/under. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Graphia
Date Published: 2008-03-18
ISBN-13:9780618934935ISBN:0618934936
Description: Good. Minimal damage to the cover, dust jacket not necessarily included minimal wear to binding, majority of pages undamaged, minimal to no highlighting/underlining of text, no missing p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780618686957ISBN:0618686959
Description: New. Clean, crisp & tight, never read. NO-remainder mark! Back cover soft bend. Dj has slight shelfwear. Books may have a remainder mark on bottom of text block. read more
"DJ Schwenk is such a likable character -- I vastly preferred reading the book to listening to it. It's easier to catch the essence of who the characters are. I feel like the audio book reader is pushing too hard with her idea of how Wisconsin folk talk. (Apparently like they're in the movie "Fargo".) But in this book, I feel like everything works. DJ is coming into her own in this book -- she's responsible, but what's more than that, she's capable and strong. She has to keep a lot of things together in this book, all the while trying to figure out what's happening between her and Brian Nelson. Nothing feels forced in this book. The realizations don't seem like they're false, and the in the moments where DJ makes decisions, she's not pushing. It's a really natural look at a really lovable girl who's learning who she is. Thought it was great!"
"I've heard some complaints that too much happens in this book to be believable, that somehow it lessens the strength of D.J.'s point of view--but I didn't find that was the case for me. I've had years like this, where each thing that happens makes the thing that was giving me so much grief before feel like child's play, and I loved the way D.J.'s growth was commensurate with the crises she was dealing with. My only quibble was that I didn't like the way everybody seemed to think D.J.'s classes and life were more expendable than anybody else's. I love D.J.'s voice a whole lot."
"4.5 stars. I haved loved the two books about the Schwenk family. The first book, Dairy Queen, followed D.J. as she tried out for the boys' football team in her high school while also taking care of her family dairy farm. This 2nd book continues the story as D.J. deals with other family problems and with her precarious social life. The characters in this family are just all so likable! :-) I think a book is successful when you come to really care about the characters. I would love to have a 3rd book about this family that goes into D.J. going to college. As with Dairy Queen, I listened to The Off Season on my iPod. I know that enhanced my enjoyment of the books because the narrator was absolutely hilarious and had just the right tone for D.J. The narrator even had a slight northern-midwest twang that was perfect for the rural Wisconsin setting."
"The day after reading Dairy Queen, I discovered there was a sequel! Oh joy to the world! I forced my husband to take me to Borders (on our way to a party for which we were already late) so I could buy it. Now, I don't just go out and buy books. A book has to be tried and tested before it takes up valuable space on my bookshelf, but I was obsessed. Also, my library didn't have the sequel and I had to have it NOW. After faking my way through an evening of conversations (I didn't want to talk to real people, I wanted to read about imaginary ones!), I finally made it home and opened the book. There she was, my homegirl, D.J. Schwenk. Oh, bliss. I stayed up late yet again and found the story to be better and worse than Dairy Queen. It was painful, yet really, really good. The ending was right on, but difficult to bear. As a result I have come up with buttloads of fanfiction ideas I will never write, but have a lot of fun thinking about. Can't wait for the third book to come out this fall!"
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