Everything you need to understand or teach Dairy Queen (novel) by Catherine Gilbert Murdock.
Dairy Queen is a coming-of-age story about a high school sophomore, D.J. Schwenk, who learns the power of communication. D.J. narrates the novel. Therefore readers are privy to her feelings and thoughts.
At the beginning of the novel, D.J. is disgruntled and bears resentment toward her family. She is angry with her father for being hurt so that she has to maintain the farm by herself; she is...