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The Voice on the Radio (Janie Johnson #3)
The Voice on the Radio, now in paperback, is the highly anticipated companion to The Face on the Milk Carton and Whatever Happened to Janie?, by best selling author Caroline B.Cooney:
Janie's life finally seems to be settling down.But she really misses Reeve Shields, her boyfriend who is away at college.Reeve is overwhelmed by his new college life, and when he is asked to h...more
Janie's life finally seems to be settling down.But she really misses Reeve Shields, her boyfriend who is away at college.Reeve is overwhelmed by his new college life, and when he is asked to h...more
Paperback, 208 pages
Published
August 10th 1998
by Laurel Leaf
(first published September 1st 1996)
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Mar 11, 2013
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Do you like mysteries? Well if you do you will immediately fall in love with The Face On The Milk Carton by Caroline B Cooney. This is a fiction book about a young girl named Janie who gets into a tough and confusing situation. Her and her friends never look at the faces on the milk carton but the first time she does she is confused. She sees herself. Trying to find her real parents and get the full story Janie cannot believe that she has been living off of a lie for 11 years. She doesn’t unders...more
First of all, the cover. There are multiple editions of this book, and the cover I actually read is not available on goodreads. Also, the goodreads blurb is different from the one on the back of my paperback, and in my opinion the back of the book is more enticing.
This is the sequel to The Face on The Milk Carton. If you've been around for a while, you may remember my thoughts on the first book from A-Z. If not, you can find them here.
I loved The Face on the Milk Carton and have often wondered...more
This is the sequel to The Face on The Milk Carton. If you've been around for a while, you may remember my thoughts on the first book from A-Z. If not, you can find them here.
I loved The Face on the Milk Carton and have often wondered...more
This companion to The Face on the Milk Carton (Bantam, 1990) and Whatever Happened to Janie (Delacorte, 1993) provides more intimate details about characters that readers have come to know and care about. Janie Johnson first saw her face on a milk carton (as a 3 year old missing child). Her very existence as she knows it… is shattered! Who is she? What happened? Are the parents she dearly loves her kidnappers? And who are her real parents?
Reeve Shields, her boyfriend, is now a college freshman a...more
Reeve Shields, her boyfriend, is now a college freshman a...more
Now that Janie has found out about her past, things finally seem to be falling into place, and she's slowly building a relationship with her original family.
Reeve, her boyfriend, has gone off to college to begin a new part of his life. He feels lost in college, but he thinks he might have found something that he can be good at. He becomes a DJ at the school radio station, and manages to get on the prime time slot. At first, he panics, having nothing to say, and then slowly, he begins to tell Jan...more
Reeve, her boyfriend, has gone off to college to begin a new part of his life. He feels lost in college, but he thinks he might have found something that he can be good at. He becomes a DJ at the school radio station, and manages to get on the prime time slot. At first, he panics, having nothing to say, and then slowly, he begins to tell Jan...more
Summary: It is the third book in the Janie Series, starting with The Face on the MIlk Carton. This book is about Reeves Shield's (Janie's boyfriend) college experience. He finds that he wants to do better at college since he didn't try hard in high school. He finds college life to be exhausting because of all of the pressure. He gets a job as a D.J. at the school's radio station. Feeling the pressure to come up with interesting things to talk about, he starts retelling Janie's whole life. He nev...more
As if Janie didn't have enough problems trying to juggle two families, trying to love both, and trying to keep her story private, her boyfriend, Reeve, who is now a college freshman, tells Janie's story over the air on WSCK, the student radio station. Reeve is suddenly famous. He tells more and more Janie stories, basking in the glory of being a star. All of Boston is listening to him. Everything is cool. Reeve knows he can quit at any time. But the Janie stories are an addiction. Instead of qui...more
In The Voice on the Radio, Reeve becomes the biggest jerk when he finally gets a good spot on his college radio station. The jerk part comes in because he tells Janie’s story without her permission and the does not tell her about it himself. She finds out when she goes to Boston with Jodie and Brian and hears him doing one of his janies, or stories about her. My favorite part of The Voice on the Radio is the when Janie is actually able to call her birth parents mom and dad. She realizes that she...more
In this one, Janie's found a way to have a relationship with both families and her life's going pretty well. The only really bad thing is that her boyfriend, Reeve, is away at college in Boston.
Her sister and one of her brothers (Jodie and Brian) decide to head to Boston to see about some colleges for Jodie and her Connecticut parents let Janie go with them. They end up hearing Reeve's show (he's a DJ) and it turns out the reason he's so popular is that he discusses Janie and the kidnapping. And...more
Her sister and one of her brothers (Jodie and Brian) decide to head to Boston to see about some colleges for Jodie and her Connecticut parents let Janie go with them. They end up hearing Reeve's show (he's a DJ) and it turns out the reason he's so popular is that he discusses Janie and the kidnapping. And...more
Okay, so, in the continuing saga of Janie Johnson/Jennie Spring, the kidnapped wonder who is trying to figure out what family means, the boyfriend Reeve uses her story, her trust for material on the radio. As much as I understand the desire to hook people into listening to you (and, having briefly worked in radio, I really DO get how intoxicating that mike is; there is no stage fright in the usual sense, there is only this weird sensual connection. It's hard to explain) and as much as I apprecia...more
The kidnapping conclusion has calmed with Janie adjusting to her new families. Unfortunately, her rock, her boyfriend Reeve, has gone off to college all the way in Boston, and the long distance relationship is taring her apart. Reeve, while he misses Janie is busy with his new gig as a disk jockey, on a local college station. On his first night he is welcomed with dead air, until he starts a story, Once Upon A Time a girl was kidnapped.... Reeve's "janies" become an instant sensation and famous...more
I just finished reading Voice on the radio by Coroline b Cooney. this book is about the main character named janie in the early 1900,s when they were creating the radio. these people are learning how these people managed to create the first radio and how they made a voice come from another location.the book is about how her friend named steven finds the voice on the radio and gets really excited and researching about how these people were able to create a voice that can travel from destination t...more
The third book in The Face on the Milk Carton series. Reeve goes off to college in Boston, and in his attempts to find his niche there, gains campus fame by revealing Janie's story on the college radio station. Janie finds out and feels betrayed. Reeve was the one constant in her life, the one person who knew everything about her story.
The tension was good in this story, but once again with the books in this series, I feel like so much went left unsolved. Does Reeve quit college? Do they break...more
The tension was good in this story, but once again with the books in this series, I feel like so much went left unsolved. Does Reeve quit college? Do they break...more
I think that this was a good book, but why not talk more about her family? Caroline B. Cooney did a good job, and it is a good read, but it was just not as satisfying as the first, second, and fourth books. The betrayal is harsh and you cannot blame Janie for being so rude to Reeve after betraying her like that. He didn't even change her and her family's names for the radio show. He wanted to be admired and he got the admiration he wanted, but lost his girl. I say go Janie for staying away from...more
Book 3 is a bit different from the first 2. Reeve is away at college, and gets the chance to be a DJ on a talk show on the college radio station (that NOBODY listens to). Trying to think of something to say, he starts to tell Janie's incredible story--and he's an instant hit. Like a soap opera, he shares just a little more each time (and goes back and forth in the story so the audience doesn't hear the whole story). He loves the interest and power he feels when people ask him to tell "a janie."...more
Janie adores her boyfriend Reeve. She wants to be with him always but Reeve has to go to a college in Boston. He tells on his radio show at school that Janie was kidnapped. She changes her mind about everything about Reeve.
I can connect this to school because secrets do get out eventually. It happens to everyone. This book shows that you cant depend on anyone with your biggest secrets not even your boyfriend. This book shows that people in love have to make sacrifices.
I gave this book 4 stars...more
I can connect this to school because secrets do get out eventually. It happens to everyone. This book shows that you cant depend on anyone with your biggest secrets not even your boyfriend. This book shows that people in love have to make sacrifices.
I gave this book 4 stars...more
I really like this book because it got to the point very quickly. It really showed her feelings for Reeve and how she felt about what he did to her and how cruel it was. This book focused on Reeve and Brian allot more then in the other books. With Brian it was how he felt about his twin troubles with Brendan and how lost he felt, but he also found him self slowly throughout the book finding out who he was. With Reeve it was stoping something he shouldn't have started and his emotions with his re...more
This book is the 3rd book in the four-part series. Janie's boyfriend Reeve is off to college in Boston. He is on the radio on the college campus. Every Tuesday and Thursday night he does janies over the radio telling the whole story of Janie Johnson being kidnapped. Reeve decides he won't tell Janie about these, but when an unexpected trip up to Boston with her biological sister Jodi ends up having Janie hearing the story on the radio, nobody knows what is going to happen next. This book is just...more
The Voice on the Radio, by Caroline B. Cooney is the third book in the Janie Johnson series. This book gets more interesting as it unravels. Janie, who is a very determind and optimistic, has to face her boyfriend Reeve Sheilds leaving her to college where he becomes a radio speaker. Janie thinks that Reeve just talks about things like the weather or sports. This book shows that forgiveness is something important in life and that need to give everyone a chance. I enjoyed being able to look at wh...more
I think that this book was a great book, because I learned a lot more about the charcaters I alredy knew in this book. I thought that Janie's boyfriend Reeve was a very reliable person to Janie, but he told Janie's story on his collage radio station (I didn't see that coming!) I also found out that the Springs (Janie's original family) sent their oldest son off to colage in another state. I never thougt that they'd let any oftheir kids go to another state by themselves- they can't suffer having...more
This is the 3rd book in the series by Caroline B. Cooney. In, "The Voice on the Radio," Janie, the main character, misses her boyfriend, who is off at college. Reeve, Janie's boyfriend, on the other hand is a dosc jocky at his college radio station, is broadcasting a story on Janie's life. The story is getting so popular that Reeve doesn't stop. What will be the price for Janie?
I predict that Janie will probably break up with Reeve for what he's done. I think Janie cannot forgive him for telli...more
I predict that Janie will probably break up with Reeve for what he's done. I think Janie cannot forgive him for telli...more
I learned several things. For example, when janie's boyfriend go to college his job is to talk on the school radio and decides to make up a story relating to what happened to janie. Since he does not know what to talk about he makes up that story and becomes well know and liked for his story. The story that he tells i s the one about when janie got kidnaped by the parents she thought were her real parents. The problem is that she does not know that he is telling her story. He also faces problems...more
Mar 10, 2013
Amber
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
young girls
Recommended to Amber by:
my mom
The third book chronicling Janie Johnson's life after she was abducted is all about forgiveness and realizing who you are. Janie comes to redefine all relationships in her life: those with both sets of parents, with siblings, with friends, and with Reeve.
Reeve joins the radio station on campus and begins sharing secrets to avoid "dead air." These acts, although heartbreaking for Janie, allow her to realize she is a Spring and she has their strength. She must accept and give forgiveness in order...more
Reeve joins the radio station on campus and begins sharing secrets to avoid "dead air." These acts, although heartbreaking for Janie, allow her to realize she is a Spring and she has their strength. She must accept and give forgiveness in order...more
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Janie Johnson had once been kidnapped and given to another family, but that was all in the past, and Janie had previously decided to live with the Johnsons instead of her real family (the Springs). Janie thinks that her new large problem is that her boyfriend, Reeve, is going away to college this year. While Janie is devastated about the situation, Reeve is quite comfortable at college in Boston. Since Reeve is itching for popularity and a reputation at his new college, he decides to join his co...more
Oct 28, 2007
zhyune
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
MILK CARTONS
Shelves:
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My Favourite Lines from the JANIE QUARTET:
'Pretending was fine when you were little and pretended with dolls or blocks or wooden trains. But to pretend forever? To find, once more, that her life was a fantasy spun by the people who supposedly loved her?'
'Janie Johnson hated her father at that moment with hatred that was wallpaper on every wall of every room she had ever lived in: stripes and circles and colours of hate pasted over every other emotion.'
'It took control to be gentle. Her finger...more
'Pretending was fine when you were little and pretended with dolls or blocks or wooden trains. But to pretend forever? To find, once more, that her life was a fantasy spun by the people who supposedly loved her?'
'Janie Johnson hated her father at that moment with hatred that was wallpaper on every wall of every room she had ever lived in: stripes and circles and colours of hate pasted over every other emotion.'
'It took control to be gentle. Her finger...more
This is a great book. Janie Johnson from "The Face on the Milk Carton" is dating Reeve Shields. Her best friend is Sarah-Charlotte Kinkle. Reeve got to be in WSCK studio for the first time and he got to listen to Visionary Assassins. It was at night when every was a sleep. Derek Himself named was called like if he was President of the United States. Reeve annouced That he was dating Janie. Meanwhile, Janie wrote a pretend invitation for Janie and Reeve's wedding.
The third in the Face on the Milk Carton series finds Janie back in Connecticut with the family she's grown up with. Things are starting to settle down in Janie's life and she's developing a better relationship with her New Jersey family. Her biggest problem now is that her boy-next-door boyfriend has moved to Boston for college and she misses him tremendously. Reeve is trying to find his niche in college and in life and is drawn to the college radio station where one night, when faced with dead...more
This was the best book of all of them. I really hate Reeve. This book acually made it feel like you were there. I encourage everyone to read these books! My favorite character would probebly be Janie. She has to go through a lot with Reeve. Reeve told her whole story, over the radio! She like wanted to kill a guy because he wanted a picture of her for a kidnapping page in the yearbook. Now he told everyone in boston.
Read this today while supervising testing at work. I'm trying to get ideas for books to suggest to students.
It was a fast read and felt like the story of "The Face on the Milk Carton" all over again. Not a lot of new information. Granted, Reeve's character ends up being a little less than perfect which is refreshing. I just didn't feel like I needed to read the same story 3 times. (And there's a 4th book!)
It was a fast read and felt like the story of "The Face on the Milk Carton" all over again. Not a lot of new information. Granted, Reeve's character ends up being a little less than perfect which is refreshing. I just didn't feel like I needed to read the same story 3 times. (And there's a 4th book!)
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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!"
When her children were young, Caroline started writing books for young people -- with rem...more
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