Read this one in the holidays, and it was great fun. DJ Schwenk is like Josephine Alibrandi, a voice leaping off the page, a first person narrator who keeps you reading. Like Josie, she's not always reliable - reflecting how her understanding changes over the course of the summer. Her family owns a dairy farm in Wisconsin, and with her two elder brothers having decamped to football camps (they're both star players), her father being injured, her mother working two other jobs and her younger brother collecting skulls and playing sport, much of the farm work falls on DJ's shoulders. Then the coach of a rival town's football team, and a family friend, suggests that DJ should coach one of his players who can also help on the farm.
There's a sequel: The Off Season.
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