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...

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.

Phillip Ye 3/20/08
Mr. Nourok Writing Arts 903

Final Draft Book Review

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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!

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...