The Off Season

by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Lexile:  1160
Genre:  Realistic Fiction

D.J. Schwenk has survived the summer and is looking forward to an exciting year as a junior - playing football and basketball.  But a serious injury to her shoulder, forces her to give up football in order to protect her basketball career.  And then her relationship with Brian Nelson is on and off and on and off again.  Then, to make matters worse her older brother Win suffers a career ending football injury and D.J. is the one that her family turns to to help him recover.