


improves as a football player and Brian becomes a stronger quarterback with greater work ethic on the farm, they become more than just friends - they become football rivals when D.J. It’s with Brian she finds a companion and she finds someone she can just talk to. Perhaps the biggest problem with the Shwenk family is that they don’t talk, and D.J. shows him the ropes of the farm….and how to condition so he can become the star quarterback of the Hawley football team. But the summer before her sophomore year, Brian Nelson comes by and informs her he needs to be helping on the farm.

Schwenk’s the only girl on the farm, and with dad having problems and mom being so busy with work, she’s become the default farm worker. Hawley games that always bring out the towns in huge numbers.ĭ.J. And what’s Wisconsin without a major high school football rivalry? The Schwenks have two college players - Win at University of Washington and Bill at the University of Minnesota - who lives to tell the tales of the big Red Bend vs. The Dairy Queen introduces readers to the Schwenk family, living on a farm in Red Bend, Wisconsin. Catherine Gilbert Murdock’s Dairy Queen series has been a very quiet set of books, receiving fewer nods than it deserves, but I think this final book may in fact help establish this as one of the best reads for girls of any age - with no foul language and a few sweet kisses as the most risque scene in book three, this will please readers and parents alike. But Bens private adventures are soon overwhelmed by a mortal threat facing the castle and indeed the entire country.One of my favorite series of books is wrapping up with the final episode, Front and Center, in a couple of weeks. So begins her secret education in the magical arts: mastering an obstinate flying broomstick, furtively emptying the castle pantries, setting her hair on fire. Starved and miserable, locked in the castles highest tower, Ben stumbles upon a mysterious enchanted room. With her parents lost to unknown assassins, Princess Ben ends up under the thumb of the conniving Queen Sophia, who is intent on marrying her off to the first available specimen of imbecilic manhood. Book Synopsis Benevolence is not your typical princess and Princess Ben is certainly not your typical fairy tale. So begins her secret education in the magical arts. Locked in the castles highest tower, Ben stumbles upon a mysterious enchanted room.

About the Book With her parents lost, Princess Benevolence ends up under the thumb of the conniving Queen Sophia.
