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Whatever Happened to Janie? (Janie Johnson #2)
No one ever paid attention to the faces of missing children on milk cartons. But as JanieJohnson glanced at the face of the little girl who had been taken twelve years ago, she recognized that little girl--it was herself.
The mystery of the kidnapping is unraveled, but the nightmare is not over. The Spring family wants justice, but who is to blame? It's difficult to figure...more
The mystery of the kidnapping is unraveled, but the nightmare is not over. The Spring family wants justice, but who is to blame? It's difficult to figure...more
Paperback, 224 pages
Published
September 1st 1994
by Laurel Leaf
(first published May 1st 1993)
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Whatever Happened to Janie was a definite improvement over The Face on the Milk Carton. It begins with Janie moving in with her biological family for a few months. I thought it was an interesting portrayal of the difficulties of getting adjusted to a new family/new family member. I was glad Cooney showed perspectives from various different family members. However, I thought the birth family were way underestimating how hard of a transition it would be for everyone. Maybe that's really how it wou...more
I gave four stars to the first one, this one managed to blow me away.
After contacting her real parents, Janie is sent to live with them without contacting home for at least three months. Once there, she is nothing like they expected. Everyone expected her to be happy to be back, instead she acts depressed and wants her old parents back. Her real parents, the Springs, try to compromise, but the problem is the little things like apple juice instead of orange juice in the morning and being expected...more
After contacting her real parents, Janie is sent to live with them without contacting home for at least three months. Once there, she is nothing like they expected. Everyone expected her to be happy to be back, instead she acts depressed and wants her old parents back. Her real parents, the Springs, try to compromise, but the problem is the little things like apple juice instead of orange juice in the morning and being expected...more
Whatever Happened to Janie? is a sequel to The Face on the Milk Carton and continues the story of a girl who saw her own picture in the kidnapped section on the milk carton. Knowing that her own parents couldn't possibly be the criminals, Janie investigates further and further with the help of her friend and neighbor, Reeve. They finally uncover the shocking truth behind her mysterious early years.
Caroline Cooney wrote from two different sides of the story, and it gave two very different pers...more
Caroline Cooney wrote from two different sides of the story, and it gave two very different pers...more
In Whatever Happened to Janie, Janie, also refered to as Jennie, goes to stay with her birth family. She does not try as hard as everyone else has been to make this new situation work. Towards the end she decides go and live with the parents that raised her. Janie Johnson realizes that she truly is Jennie Spring, but does not want to hurt the people she calls Mommy and Daddy anymore than their real daughter did. Janie’s brother and sister, Stephen and Jodie, went to New York to try and find Hann...more
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Whatever happened to Janie is a sequel to The face on the milk carton and Janie has moved into her real families house and she is real shy to them because she hasn't seen them in twelve year and the prey every night, but her other family never did and their house is so small and their are seven people in the family and they all share one bathroom and Janie at her old house had her own bathroom and she has four dozen clothes and her sister Jodie that she has to share a room with. Her new brothers...more
Overview: The book begins with an account of the anguish and fear the Spring family suffered as they dealt with the kidnapping of their daughter. The police were unable to find any trace of the little girl and the entire family suffered and grieved for twelve years.
In another part of the country, Janie Johnson discovered a picture of a missing girl on the cover of a milk carton and realized it was her face. She wrestled with the knowledge and finally revealed the truth to her boyfriend. After co...more
In another part of the country, Janie Johnson discovered a picture of a missing girl on the cover of a milk carton and realized it was her face. She wrestled with the knowledge and finally revealed the truth to her boyfriend. After co...more
Janie has found her "real" family, the family that lost her to kidnapping twelve years ago. Instead of feeling relieved that she figured it all out, she's anxious because now she has to leave her parents, her home, her friends and her boyfriend to live in a crowded house full of strangers five hours away from everything she's ever known. There are new parents, new siblings, a new school, and nothing is familiar. She misses her parents horribly and although the Springs are trying, it's not home...more
In some ways, this is actually better than the first book, The Face on the Milk Carton. Janie's been told she has to go live with her birth family, and this opens up the delightfully awful complexity of what family really is. Being a person who staunchly opposes the idea that "family" only means the people who share your DNA, I really like that Cooney took the time to examine this. Your blood family will always be a part of who are you, even if you haven't known them most of your life, but they...more
Young Adult novel. The second book in the Janie Johson series (starting with The Face on the Milk Carton) about a teen girl who realizes the missing child's face staring out from a picture on a milk carton is her own face when she was only three. In this book, Janie has reconnected with her birth family, and sent to live with them. From being an only child with loving, wealthy parents to having four siblings and sharing a small home (the family had never moved on the small hope that their child...more
Just good that I had this second part of the series as well, cause after I finished the first book I wanted to know what happenend after Jamie finally called her real parents.
The feeling of homesickness was understandable for me, I've lived in a 'foreign' family for a year as well - and it's just different from being really home.
But I think they could have found a compromise where both families would have been happier. But it's just a book after all.
The feeling of homesickness was understandable for me, I've lived in a 'foreign' family for a year as well - and it's just different from being really home.
But I think they could have found a compromise where both families would have been happier. But it's just a book after all.
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I started reading "The Face On The Milk Carton" last year, but stopped because it was too challenging. I picked up this book and remembered the author. I sort of knew what happened in the last book (from the dirt five pages I read) and it was easy to figure out what the background story is. This book is full of feelings and thought. When I was reading it, I was surprised by how many feelings this girl Janie was experiencing. For example, in the text it said that she felt like her world collapsed...more
After recognizing her face on a milk carton Janie Johnson has been reconnected with her biological family and is facing an identity crises. Is she Janie Johnson or Jennie Spring?
The Springs, are decent people who had the worst luck fall upon them, obviously after hearing their daughter is alive and well welcome her back with open arms. Unfortunately, Janie is unwilling to except these changes and chooses to live in her seemingly perfect past. Most of the story revolves around Janie's adjustment,...more
The Springs, are decent people who had the worst luck fall upon them, obviously after hearing their daughter is alive and well welcome her back with open arms. Unfortunately, Janie is unwilling to except these changes and chooses to live in her seemingly perfect past. Most of the story revolves around Janie's adjustment,...more
Now that Janie has discovered the truth behind her kidnapping, she's been sent to stay with her "real parents". Mr and Mrs Spring are overjoyed to have her back after so many years.
Janie finds it very difficult to fit in with her new family, instead of being an only child, she now has four other siblings, Stephen and Jodie are her older brother and sister, and she has two younger brothers, Brian and Brendan.
In addition to all this, she feels that if she starts liking her new family, it's being d...more
Janie finds it very difficult to fit in with her new family, instead of being an only child, she now has four other siblings, Stephen and Jodie are her older brother and sister, and she has two younger brothers, Brian and Brendan.
In addition to all this, she feels that if she starts liking her new family, it's being d...more
Jun 22, 2010
Shally Clark
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
teenagers and lovers of YA literature
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Summary: This is the sequel to The Face on the Milk Carton. It is what happens to Janie after she finds out everything she does about her parents, where she came from and where she feels like she belongs. It is a big test for Janie to she what she really wants as her life has been turned upside-down. She has to grow up fast as she faces the reality of what happens. It is a book about her reaction and she treats those that love her. She has to choose what she really wants while she has pressures...more
Recently in this book, Janie was going to be turning 16, but since her "parents" had to make up her birthday, she actually isn't turning 16. Also, Janie (Jennie) is still learning how to be more of a Spring than a Johnson (she recently went back to her original home,) and she is luckily aloud to speak to Mrs. Johnson, her "mom". Since it was almost her "birhtday", she was thinking about all of her past wonderful birthdays. I feel bad for Jnaie, because she grew up with her birthday being May 10t...more
Whatever Happened to Janie? by Caroline B. Cooney was a great book about Janie, a girl who lived in Connecticut. She had a perfect life, amazing parents, a huge house, great room, lots of friends, a great boyfriend- a picture perfect life to say the least!!! Until she looked at a milk carton. It had her picture on it, saying missing child. Now she has to go live with her "real" parents after thinking her "fake" parents were her "real" ones. Things are hard for her, and this book shows her strugg...more
The first book The Face on the milk carton lead up to this book Whatever happened to Janie? This book was all about the life of the new Janie now called Jennie and decisions she makes.
It all starts off when Janie has finally figured out that she has to go move in with her new family but really her acual real family. Janie doesn't want to go at all,but she knows there is no choice. She is now living with her real family two states away from her last. Steven, Jodie, Branden, Brian, and the paren...more
It all starts off when Janie has finally figured out that she has to go move in with her new family but really her acual real family. Janie doesn't want to go at all,but she knows there is no choice. She is now living with her real family two states away from her last. Steven, Jodie, Branden, Brian, and the paren...more
I think I actually liked this book better than the first in the series. The first one is a classic and wonderfully written... but Caroline Cooney never reveals what really happens to Janie... that story is reserved for this book. I think it was well done and realistically written and I'm thoroughly enjoying re-reading these books.
Things are really getting intense now, I’ve a billion questions to ask and I have to get the answers for them. So next two volumes, am coming right-up.
JANIE or Jennie, really shouldn’t have gone back to her other set of parents but then it’s very tricky situation. One set of parents, who gave birth and the other who took care of her. Is being with the one who took care but are not your real parents, a good idea?
Cursing Hannah is really not a solution, neither finding her and punishing her would...more
JANIE or Jennie, really shouldn’t have gone back to her other set of parents but then it’s very tricky situation. One set of parents, who gave birth and the other who took care of her. Is being with the one who took care but are not your real parents, a good idea?
Cursing Hannah is really not a solution, neither finding her and punishing her would...more
I remember liking this sequel better as a teenager than I did this time around. This time, all I could think of as I read was that the book would have been better if it was twice as long. Everything was too short, too quick, and didn't have space to develop as I wanted it to.
Cooney was masterful at getting a lot (characterization, emotions, plot, etc.) across in few words, but I just wanted more of all of them.
Also (and this may have been changed in later editions), I was distracted by things Co...more
Cooney was masterful at getting a lot (characterization, emotions, plot, etc.) across in few words, but I just wanted more of all of them.
Also (and this may have been changed in later editions), I was distracted by things Co...more
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May 11, 2012
Anoolka
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4 of 5 stars
Shelves:
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female-protagonist,
high-school,
long-lost-family,
contemporary,
young-adult
It's a little weaker than the first book, I think. It's less clean cut- the plot, the writing - there are more povs than just Janie's, the drama of the two families and the ending. I wish the families worked out a better deal in the end - there are more options than just either here or there. But still a good read. Different povs allow us to see how different members of the family (Janie, Stephen, Jodie) and Reeve deal with it all. While Janie's behavior is a little frustrating at times it's als...more
I wanted to love this as much as the first one, and for a while I did. But in the end, not so much. One thing I loved was how it changed perspective, switching amongst Janie/Jennie and her siblings. What I didn't love is how the way they handled the situation (the adults) seemed unrealistic and not very smart which made it feel like it was handled the way it was simply to create a plot.
There were so many options for the families and they picked one and stuck to it and when it didn't work, they...more
There were so many options for the families and they picked one and stuck to it and when it didn't work, they...more
This is a young adult chapter book about a girl who lives her whole life with her "parents" only to find out that she was kidnapped as a child. The book tells the story of Janie's journey home and adjustment to life with her "new" real family.
The first time I read this I was a kid, and then read it again for this class. I liked the book the same each time I read it and both times I loved it. The author does a really good job portraying Janie's confusion and apprehension about leaving the family...more
The first time I read this I was a kid, and then read it again for this class. I liked the book the same each time I read it and both times I loved it. The author does a really good job portraying Janie's confusion and apprehension about leaving the family...more
Whatever Happened To Janie I thought was a great book. I loved how it went back and forth from most of the characters telling you how they felt about the situation with Janie. It also showed what they thought she would be like in there mind, and what she turned out to be like in that home and what they felt about the way she acted. I think the story did fit the title. I do not think it was as much as a mystery as the first one. In the book it had small mysteries that they figured out a little la...more
The book " Whatever Happened to Janie?" is a book by Caroline B. Cooney it is a mystery fiction book. It is the second book in the series of " The Face on the Milk Carton." In the book one of the biggest topics is finding who you truly are. The main protagonists name is Janie but in the book it changes to all different names and Janie gets really confused. Since in the first book she starts to figure out that the family she lives with is not her real family. In the second book Janie finds her re...more
I’ve always been conflicted about this book. I’m a huge “what happens next” kind of person, but in some way, I don’t really want anything more to happen to Janie. Everyone involved in these stories has suffered immeasurably and I very much want things to be better. But life doesn’t usually work that way, so why would a book?
I’d first like to acknowledge that this story is pretty implausible. I know that most kids who are kidnapped aren’t really living safely with another family. They don’t usual...more
I’d first like to acknowledge that this story is pretty implausible. I know that most kids who are kidnapped aren’t really living safely with another family. They don’t usual...more
Whatever Happened to Janie?
Caroline B. Cooney
Laurel-Leaf Books
1993
In the first book, The Face on the Milk Carton, Janie discovers that she was kidnapped as a young child and that her parents are not really her parents. In this book, Janie goes to live with her original family and tries to discover who she really is.
There are no heroes or villains in this book, instead every character, Janie, both sets of parents, the siblings, are all victims of a kidnapper that in one day changed all of their...more
Caroline B. Cooney
Laurel-Leaf Books
1993
In the first book, The Face on the Milk Carton, Janie discovers that she was kidnapped as a young child and that her parents are not really her parents. In this book, Janie goes to live with her original family and tries to discover who she really is.
There are no heroes or villains in this book, instead every character, Janie, both sets of parents, the siblings, are all victims of a kidnapper that in one day changed all of their...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!"
When her children were young, Caroline started writing books for young people -- with rem...more
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