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The Face on the Milk Carton (Janie Johnson #1)

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No one ever really paid close attention to the faces of the missing children on the milk cartons. But as Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the ordinary little girl with her hair in tight pigtails, wearing a dress with a narrow white collar—a three-year-old who had been kidnapped twelve years before from a shopping mall in New Jersey—she felt overcome with shock. She rec...more

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Jun 11, 2008 Erin added it · review of another edition

Shelves: favoritechildhoodbooks

man, there are some HATERS on this front page...

listen. if you loved this book when you were in middle school, it sure as hell wasn't because you thought the literary style was articulate and composed. it was because you were in middle school, and therefore an angsty teen who wished you too could discover your lame parents weren't actually related to you by blood. everybody wants to find out they've been kidnapped when they're that age! it's WAY cooler than just being born into suburbia and woul...more

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Mar 09, 2008 Rhein rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: anyone 9 and up

Recommended to Rhein by: My sister even though she had only ever read the first chapter b

This book was by far the best book I've ever read but has some adult content. Even though it does it is a great book. It's about a girl named Janie (Jennie) who sees her face from twelve years ago on the back of a milk carton saying she has been kidnapped. The whole book is about her finding out if her "parents" had actually kidnapped her and her finding her real family. I am reading the second book out of four now and so far it is amazing as well.

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Mar 25, 2008 Phillip rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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The Face on the Milk Carton
By Caroline B. Cooney

At first, I thought this book was just going to be about a girl, who got kidnapped, and some detectives went and tracked down clues to find her. It made me think this book was no different than any other normal mystery book but I was terribly wrong. This book was a lot more than just a mystery!

This book is basically about a girl named Janie and she lives her life as an ave...more

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May 02, 2012 Elizabeth rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: intensive-english-program

This is the novel I've been teaching my high intermediate learners of English as a second language for the past eight weeks. I've never read this author before, and I probably won't read anything by her again if given the choice.

I had a hard time relating to the main character/narrator in any way, but the book contains lots of new vocabulary for the students. They were unhappy that there were no pictures.

Although I really didn't enjoy reading this, I did kind of like the way it ended. I feel l...more

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Justina First of all, I can understand that you couldn't relate, because some people just can't.

But you also have to try. Put yourself in that position, thin...more
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Elizabeth I can surely imagine myself in the situation Janie was in easily enough, but I can't relate at all to her reactions to the situation. I thought she wa...more
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May 07, 2008 Sarah rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult

Rather contrived plot,it struck me as being the literary equivalent of a paint-by-numbers picture. It was almost as though the author sketched an outline and then proceeded to fill in the blanks (I know English teachers always harp about pre-writing with an outline but who really does that?)Besides, milk cartons haven't featured photographs of missing children for years so it is unlikely the current teen audience would grasp the reference.

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Dec 28, 2009 Karina Magana rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

In the novel The Face On The Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney is about how a girl named Janie was stolen when she was three, but she never knew. Until one day, she sees a milk carton that has a girls face and says that she is missing. She realized that the little girl in the carton was her.She soon has thoughts about if her parents are really her parents or the kidnappers.She soon discovers many things that she wished she had never known.She found out that her parents had a daughter and she ra...more

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Nov 05, 2008 Steven rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: everyone

Recommended to Steven by: no one

This book is about how a girl named Janie was stolen when she was three, but she never knew. Until one day, she sees a milk carton that has a girls face and says that she is missing. She realized that the little girl in the carton was her.She soon has doughts about if her parents are really her parents or the kidnappers.She soon discovers many things that she wished she had never known.

She found out that her parents had a daughter and she ran away to New Jersey. One day that missing daughter h...more

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Jun 10, 2008 Nailena The Mighty Panda!!!!!! rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Everyone

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The Face On The Milk Carton
Catherine B. Cooney

This book started out with Janie Johnson, at lunch. She was lactose intolerant so she could not drink milk. One day she was eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and she desired to wash it down with milk, even though she was allergic. Then across the cafeteria a child points out a picture of a little girl with a polka - dot dress and little pig tails. With one glimpse of the picture Janie knew it was her as a child.
But who was Jennie Spring? Jani...more

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Apr 04, 2012 Olivia Ambrose rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Olivia Ambrose ~ Challenged

“The Face on the Milk Carton” is the story of a young girl, Janie who finds her picture on the back of a milk carton saying that she was kidnapped 12 years ago. She must decide how she wants to deal with this and its implications. In addition, she is also falling in love with her neighbor, Reeve. I cannot decide if I like this book or not, I am simply neutral. While it was enjoyable to read, I was not thrilled about it. This is also a book which has been challenged, wh...more

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Jan 21, 2009 Makenzie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I loved this book!! It is about a girl who finds out she might have been kiddnaped as a little girl. it kept u on ur feet, begging for more and keeps you longing to turn each page!! Read it!

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Mar 10, 2009 Jessy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

this book is really good I can't wait to read the next oh and kids no younger than 9or10 should read it.

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Aug 25, 2009 Maria M. Elmvang rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2009, 3-stars, owned, ya

Excellent concept, not-so-excellent execution. The plot idea is absolutely thrilling - suddenly realising that your parents are actually not your parents, but that you've been kidnapped, not knowing how to react, who to turn to or who to trust.

Unfortunately Caroline Cooney's didn't quite have the skills to pull it off, and therefore the writing seemed occasionally choppy and the emotions unrealistic.

Still, the story itself was really interesting, so I definitely want to read the rest of the seri...more

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May 04, 2013 Bailey rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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One of the best books I've ever read. This story is fantastic it was filled with heart pounding suspense and romance. A classic book that I MUST read ever year or so. Caroline B. Cooney had me hooked with this book. This story is about a girl named Janie Johnson who find's out that her parent's aren't really her parents after finding a picture of her young self on a missing ad on a milk carto...more If your excited about reading the book check out the movie here:

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One of the best books I've ever read. This story is fantastic it was filled with heart pounding suspense and romance. A classic book that I MUST read ever year or so. Caroline B. Cooney had me hooked with this book. This story is about a girl named Janie Johnson who find's out that her parent's aren't really her parents after finding a picture of her young self on a missing ad on a milk carton. She naturally freaks out (who wouldn't) who are these people? And did who she thought where her loving parent's really kidnap her?
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In the end we find out that Janies parent's didn't really kidnap her but there cult crazy daughter Hannah did. She dramatically is forced to call her real mother who is estatic to be finding her long lost daughter. This ends in a exciting cliff hanger that will pick up in The Janie Johnsons series next book. And what about Reeve?

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While at lunch one day, she grabs a friend's milk carton which changes her life. She noticed the 'missing person' photo on the back of the milk carton; it happens to be herself when she was very young, dressed in a white polka dotted dress. The milk carton says that Jennie Spring was kidnapped from a New Jersey mall when she was three years old while going shoe shopping. Janie believes the carton must be some type of joke because her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, are very loving parents. Janie tries to put it out of her mind, but she begins having flashbacks, or what she calls "daymares," of events and people that don't fit in with her current life. She 'remembers' other children and a woman who is not Mrs. Johnson.

Janie goes to the attic and rummages through the boxes that she finds there. In the boxes, she finds school papers with the name Hannah. She also finds the polka-dotted white dress that she saw on the milk carton. When confronted by Janie, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson explain that Hannah is their daughter, and that Janie is Hannah's daughter, their granddaughter. Hannah was a confused teen and joined a cult at a young age. She was married to one of the men in her cult and one day showed up at the Johnsons' house with Janie. Hannah returned to her cult, and the Johnsons left with Janie fearing that the cult would try to get her back, moving to a different state, and even changing their names from 'Javensen' to 'Johnson.' Janie comes to the conclusion that the memories are of her life in the cult before coming to the Johnsons. Janie is relieved that the people whom she believed to be her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, were not kidnappers.

However, Janie cannot get the picture on the milk carton or the memories of another family out of her mind. She researches the Jennie Spring kidnapping. She comes to the conclusion that her parents might have actually kidnapped her. But, she still loves them and tries to forgive them. Still, Janie and her boyfriend, Reeve, go to New Jersey to see the Spring family with their own eyes. The entire family has the same red hair that Janie has, which neither Mr. and Mrs. Johnson or even Hannah have. It is evidence that Janie can't ignore, but she tries to anyway. She writes the Spring family a letter, but she doesn't mail the letter because she is still unsure about what to do. While at school, Janie loses the letter and the decision of whether to tell or not is taken out of her hands as she realizes that someone might have dropped it in the mail. Finally Janie decides go to ask her parents and confront them with everything she has learned. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are shocked. They figure that Hannah was probably the one who kidnapped Janie; they also decide that the Springs must be called. Janie tries to keep them from telling anyone because she loves them very much and doesn't want to hurt them. But Janie's mother is adamant, the Springs have been without their daughter for too long. At the end of the book, Mrs. Johnson calls the Springs and Janie talks to what might be her real mother for the first time.
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Apr 24, 2013 Izzi A rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The Face On The Milk Carton is a really great book.

No, wait, let me rephrase that; The Face On The Milk Carton is really different from the rest of the books in the series.

I love this book series. It's a compelling and suspenseful series that does not disappoint.

However, this book, in my opinion, was the worst book of the series.

I don't know; This book is a little too "not in depth" if that makes any sense to you, it's just that every other book in this series is problem after problem af...more

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Apr 22, 2013 Kelly J. rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The Face On The Milk Carton
Caroline B. Cooney
realistic fiction
200 pages

In The Face on The Milk Carton it is about a girl named Janie. One day she finds a milk carton that has a picture of her when she was a child, and the name on carton was Jennie Spring but her real name is Janie Johnson. Then one day she finds the dress she was wearing in the picture on the milk carton. Also while she was looking through stuff in the attic and she finds a folder named Hannah. The weird thing is though is that...more

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Jan 05, 2013 Haleigh rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

It all started when fifteen year old Janie Johnson decided to go against her doctor's orders and drink milk at lunch one day. Caroline B. Cooney, the author of the novel The Face on the Milk Carton, describes the life of a teenage girl whose life is turned around when she thinks she sees the face of her three year old self on a milk carton where the photos of kidnapped children appear. Cooney uses a mysterious tone throughout the novel to really capture the reader's attention.
Cooney created viv...more It all started when fifteen year old Janie Johnson decided to go against her doctor's orders and drink milk at lunch one day. Caroline B. Cooney, the author of the novel The Face on the Milk Carton, describes the life of a teenage girl whose life is turned around when she thinks she sees the face of her three year old self on a milk carton where the photos of kidnapped children appear. Cooney uses a mysterious tone throughout the novel to really capture the reader's attention.
Cooney created vivid characters in the book The Face on the Milk Carton to help tell Janie's story. Reeve, Janie's neighbor, is a supportive boy who helps Janie through her adventures of trying to figure out why her face is on the milk carton. He was my favorite character because of how loving and understanding he was to Janie when she needed it the most. Sarah-Charlotte, Janie's best friend, is a caring, but sometimes self centered girl who tries to help Janie but does not succeed. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are Janie's protective parents who are hiding a big secret from her. Janie's obstacles allow her to grow as a person and those around her also learn from her experiences.
Caroline B. Cooney created a very engaging plot in the book The Face on the Milk Carton. I really enjoyed reading the book. I think the author succeeded in developing the characters and overall theme. She also succeeded in creating a tone for the book. The book was very light-hearted, yet mysterious. The only part where I think the author failed was in creating an overall setting for the events that took place. I had a hard time understanding when and where the story was really occurring. My favorite part of the story was when Reeve and Janie admitted their feelings for each other. This added a romantic aspect to the mystery. I enjoyed most parts of the book, except for when Reeve broke up with Janie. This part of the story did create drama, but kind of ruined the relationship between the characters. If I could've change that part, the book would have been amazing.
I would recommend the novel The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney to another teenage girl. I think a teenage girl would be able to relate to Janie's character and feel the same emotions Janie was feeling throughout her course of events. Overall, the book was great and I would recommend it not only to a teenage girl, but to anyone interested in an easy-read mystery!

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Jan 03, 2013 Ann Schaffer rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was a good story, and I cannot wait to read the sequels! I bought the book for my teenage daughter, but read it quickly before she had a chance to pick it up. A normal teenage girl recognizes her own picture on a milk carton in her high school cafeteria. In the picture, she is a 3-year-old child who was abducted from a mall. The picture triggers fragmented memories of a previous life.

I assumed this book was new since it was recommended to me by a book store employee. I couldn't put my finge...more

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Dec 02, 2012 Megan rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Janie Johnson had a wonderful life, filled with great friends and amazing parents who she loved. Until one day she found out she was not the person she thought she was. After casually glancing at a milk carton during lunch she finds out she was kidnapped. Janie doesn’t want to believe what the carton says but she recognizes the dress the girl is wearing in the picture, she remembers what it felt like wearing that dress. But how could her loving parents kidnap her?
Caroline B. Cooney tells the sto...more Janie Johnson had a wonderful life, filled with great friends and amazing parents who she loved. Until one day she found out she was not the person she thought she was. After casually glancing at a milk carton during lunch she finds out she was kidnapped. Janie doesn’t want to believe what the carton says but she recognizes the dress the girl is wearing in the picture, she remembers what it felt like wearing that dress. But how could her loving parents kidnap her?
Caroline B. Cooney tells the story like most young adult authors. There is drama that keeps you glued to the book, because you want to find out what next Janie Johnson will find out. Janie Johnson has to confront the abrupt truth that she doesn't know who she really is - she doesn't even know her real name. When you read this novel, you feel as if you are there, watching everything happen. The reader becomes a part of the story that Cooney is creating.
As Janie is fighting through the trauma of realizing something terrible happened when she was little, she goes through a relationship with her best friend. They both finally make it aware to one another that they have feelings for one another, but because of the drama of possibly being kidnapped Janie can’t focus.
The whole book, the reader is rooting for Janie and her love-interest to be together forever. But Caroline Cooney faces you with the truth that with problems elsewhere, it can result in a ruined relationship. The author is open and honest with the reader, and keeps the book intriguing to teenagers. You can relate to the characters in the book, comparing them to your friends and it makes you ask yourself how you would handle this if you were in any of the characters situations.
One of the things that kept Janie from believing she was ever kidnapped is that her parents are so loving and caring. They wouldn’t even hurt a fly, so how could they ever hurt her real family like that? Her mother is always giving back to the community, but could that be because she feels guilty of kidnapping a child?
The reader instantly becomes caught up in a good mystery, but they also begin to think about the importance and complexity of family relationships.
I would recommend this book to someone who likes a good mystery, or to read about drama in a teenager’s life and how she handles it. When somebody reads this book, you will instantly get hooked. I guarantee you will never want to put it down.
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Oct 19, 2012 Sam W. added it · review of another edition

The book Face on The Milk Carton is a suspenseful and fearful book about a very normal family. A girl named Janie has the perfect life. The perfect family, the perfect friends. That is, until the day when she decided to look at the milk carton. “No one looks at the milk carton,” thought Janie, but that day she looked at the milk carton. It was her, her face staring back at her in the cafeteria. Most people would go home and tell their parents, but instead Janie did not tell her parents and made...more

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Sep 12, 2012 Maddie Rose rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Can you imagine your daughter gone missing and after 12 years still hoping she's out there alive and happy. Thats what the Spring family had to go through! After years of having all the children on leases when they went shopping (Janie (jennie) was lost at a shopping mall) and living in a small house crammed with the four other kids hopping Jennie Spring would come back so they could have a happy family. They decided to put their daughters face on a milk carton hoping she would return to them!

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Jul 07, 2012 Nicola rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2012-books, challenge-books

After picking up Book 2 of this series I HAD to reread this. I recall being profoundly affected by this book, and experienced very similar results again this time, many years later.
I am sure that a lot of teens think/wish that they belong wo another family at some time or another -- one with a mom they can bond with more easily, with a dad who understands them and does not embarass them, one with terrific, easygoing siblings. These fantasies are often carried out when in trouble or fighting with...more

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Mar 20, 2012 Melody Nazarbegian rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The Face on the Milk Carton was a very unique story. I chose this book because a friend recommended it to me. This book was about a girl who recognizes her face on a missing persons ad on her milk carton. She is trying to figure out how her loving parents could've possible kidnapped her; her parents told her that her real mother had joined a cult and that they were really her grandparents. She really wants to believe that that's all there is to it, but she keeps having these weird "daymares" abo...more

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Jan 06, 2012 Shweta rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: scared-the-daylights-out-of-me, ya-contemporary

This book sat on my shelf for a really long time before I decided to read it. Caroline Cooney's books I have heard of, are of similar themes as this book . First book in the Janie Johnson series was a good place to start with this author.

Janie's quest to find the truth about her past makes up the whole plot. Here she is helped in some ways by her next door neighbor Reeve .The whole feel of the story is based on suspicion so I never got comfortable with it . Call me weird but books which have sus...more

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Oct 26, 2011 Mary rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: children-s, adoption

A few weeks ago, I read an article in the New York Times about an intriguing event. The daughter of activists in Chile (I think it was Chile; it might have been Argentina), was taken and adopted by a general in the Army who proceeded to kill the birth parents of this girl. She grew up not knowing any of this, and loving the parents who raised her. She found out when she was in her early twenties. You can imagine it was a very hard reality to process. One thing that struck and amazed me was that...more

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Sep 03, 2011 Johanna Story rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The Face on the Milk Carton is about a girl who finds her face on the back of a milk carton during lunch. The milk carton says that it is the picture of a missing girl named Jennie Spring, but her name is Janie Johnson. It says that she was kidnapped from a mall in New Jersey when she was three years old. Now the girl is sixteen and living in Connecticut. Janie has flashbacks, or "daymares", from when she was very little but she cannot piece them all together because they are so random. Sarah-Ch...more

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Aug 17, 2011 Ciara N. rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Cooney,Caroline B.(1990).The Face On the Milk Carton. New York:Bantam Books. (184pgs.)

The book that I read was The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney. The Face on the Milk Carton is a book about a girl named Janie Johnson, a fifteen year old who lives in Connecticut. And she doesn't know yet but she is trying to figure out if it was her face that she saw on the milk carton. It said that the girls name was Jennie Spring and that she was kidnapped in a shopping center as a little girl...more

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Aug 09, 2011 Yvonne Powderly rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Do you ever look at the missing children pictured on your milk cartons or in the newspapers? Janie did – and she saw herself.
Janie Johnson is a normal fifteen year old, red-headed girl. She is an only child and comes from an ideal family with a respected mom and dad. She is learning to drive, has a best friend, and she even has a crush. Janie and her friends always look at the missing people on the back of their milk cartons at lunch for entertainment, but one day it was Janie's picture. Was thi...more

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Jun 29, 2011 Sarai rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult-fiction

Toward the end of the book Janie has the thought that this situation is going to go on forever. I'm with you, Janie. This book went on foreverrrrrrrrr.

I listened to the book on CD based on a referral from a 5th grader during my school visits, who told me this was an awesome book. And I'm glad he liked it.

For me, it was excruciating.

She loves her family, she hates her family, she loves her family. She's a wretched wretched girl because she allowed someone to buy her from her family with a sunda...more Toward the end of the book Janie has the thought that this situation is going to go on forever. I'm with you, Janie. This book went on foreverrrrrrrrr.

I listened to the book on CD based on a referral from a 5th grader during my school visits, who told me this was an awesome book. And I'm glad he liked it.

For me, it was excruciating.

She loves her family, she hates her family, she loves her family. She's a wretched wretched girl because she allowed someone to buy her from her family with a sundae - I can't tell you how many times that was mentioned. She's not going to contact her birth parents, she'll drive to NJ to see their house, she's not going to contact them, she writes up a letter to them, she's not going to contact them, she puts the letter in an addressed envelope. Oopsy, she loses the envelope! She's not going to think about them, she thinks about them constantly, everything is okay mom and dad, my life is ruined. Blah blah blah blah blah. I was ready to slap Janie in the face.

And how does the book end? SPOILER! It ends with her mother dialing the number of her birth parents in NJ. I don't recall hearing that she was looking in a phone book or staring at a slip of paper with their number on it so how does she have their number memorized? Maybe I was fading in and out of consciousness at that point. Then she makes Janie talk to them - 'Hi, I'm your daughter.' I sure hope her mom dialed the right number!

I found this book to be extremely annoying. Janie's head was such a mess, but it wasn't an interesting mess, it was a let's-repeat-the-same-thought-over-and-over mess. And the back and forthing of her moods was about to give me whiplash. And then everyone is crying all the time. The similes were awful. I was thankful to get out of the first few chapters where the word milk was mentioned a hundred times.

And these kids were supposed to be high school kids? If she hadn't been making out with the boy next door I would have thought they were middle school kids because none of them seemed very mature. (Not that middle school kids aren't mature - I love you, my program teens!)

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No one ever really paid close attention to the faces of the missing children on the milk cartons. But as Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the ordinary little girl with her hair in tight pigtails, wearing a dress with a narrow white collar--a three-year-old who had been kidnapped twelve years before from a shopping mall in New Jersey--she felt overcome with shock. She recognized that little girl--it was she. How could it possibly be true?

Janie can't believe that her loving parents kidnapped her, but as she begins to piece things together, nothing makes sense. Something is terribly wrong. Are Mr. and Mrs. Johnson really Janie's parents? And if not, who is Janie Johnson, and what really happened?

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May 02, 2011 Mary rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: high-school-books, middle-school-books

Reeve, one of the main characters, effectively summarizes this story in The Voice on the Radio: "Once upon a time," he begins, "Janie was light and airy. Like hope and joy. Janie had lots of friends and she was crazy about her mom and dad...except one day in the school cafeteria...Janie just happened to glance down at the picture of [the] missing child printed on the milk carton...and the face on the milk carton was Janie herself." The child has been missing since she was three, for twelve years...more

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Apr 28, 2011 Annie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

irst off, how great is the idea for this book? I've seen those ads looking for kids who disappeared years ago and its true who would recognize the child except the person themselves. This plot had me hooked from the very beginning.

Janie is just a normal, lactose intolerant girl. She has a crush on her next door neighbor Reeve, a great life with parents who love her and she loves them back. But then she sees herself on the milk carton and her world is turned upside down. Did her parents kidnap h...more

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Caroline Cooney knew in sixth grade that she wanted to be a writer when "the best teacher I ever had in my life" made writing her main focus. "He used to rip off covers from The New Yorker and pass them around and make us write a short story on whichever cover we got. I started writing then and never stopped!"
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The Face on the Milk Carton (Janie Johnson #1)

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