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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 Janie Johnson 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 figur...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 figur...more
Mass Market Paperback, 224 pages
Published
September 1st 1994
by Laurel Leaf
(first published January 1st 1993)
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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 boyfrie...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 boyfrie...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...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 li...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.
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...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 Jani...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 Jani...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 likin...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 likin...more
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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 w...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, ...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...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...more
Traci
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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.
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
My opinion of this book osculated between boring and irritating for most of it. There were those few moments, after getting used to the pitiful drama, that I found myself enjoying it. But that feeling would then be interrupted by one of Janie's mood swings that would, once again, changed the course of events. Fortunately or unfortunately, Janie's story grew increasingly short and choppy (ending without an ending) to make way for Jodie and Stephen's revenge plan. I rolled my eyes and prayed that ...more
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How could Janie Johnson be that missing girl on the milk carton? How could her dear family have kidnapped her? Why is Janie Johnson’s life more complicated then any other 15 year old girl?
Now the truth of the kidnapping is revealed but the night mare is not over. Janie is to live with her real family. She can’t stand it. She can’t even think about leaving her elderly parents, after their first daughter Hannah had left them for the cult. How could they bear to lose another child? How ...more
Now the truth of the kidnapping is revealed but the night mare is not over. Janie is to live with her real family. She can’t stand it. She can’t even think about leaving her elderly parents, after their first daughter Hannah had left them for the cult. How could they bear to lose another child? How ...more
I don't remember what happened to Janie, but knowing Caroline B. Cooney , it was something excessively dramatic.
In the Book Whatever Happened To Janie I thought it was more exciting then the last one. Janie was still acting stuck up in this book but i understand why . My favorite part was when Reeve come to visit her and she was happy and laughing but then when he left she was mean again . I liked that part because it was funny how her mood could change throughout the story within a snap of a finger because of the people she was surrounded by. I think these books should be made into a movie maybe it would...more
Spoilers for those who haven't read The Face on the Milk Carton.
In this book, Janie (now Jennie Spring) goes back to live with her biological family and tries to adjust. Her parents are very nice and she has an older brother and sister, plus younger twin brothers. It's a good family, but it's not HER family. And Janie is kind of a bitch to them. (But it's understandable, because how do you consider strangers your family? And how do you answer to a different name?)
Rea...more
In this book, Janie (now Jennie Spring) goes back to live with her biological family and tries to adjust. Her parents are very nice and she has an older brother and sister, plus younger twin brothers. It's a good family, but it's not HER family. And Janie is kind of a bitch to them. (But it's understandable, because how do you consider strangers your family? And how do you answer to a different name?)
Rea...more
Sequel to The Face on the Milk Carton. Does not stand alone on its own. This book was alternately fascinating and frustrating. I thought the expectations of the birth family were unrealistic, but when I really put myself in their shoes, I could completely empathize. Janie's reactions frustrated me--make more of an effort, girl!--but again, I put myself in her shoes and imagined myself at 15, and I could empathize with her, too.
The ending was completely unsatisfying, trailing off ...more
The ending was completely unsatisfying, trailing off ...more
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Sequel to The Face on the Milk Carton. Now Janie, having found her birth family from which she was kidnapped at age four, must go to live with them. What happens doesn’t live up to their expectations or hers. Identity crises, family relationships, what constitutes parenting, all these are topics the book treats. Be careful. The same cautions about attitudes towards sex apply to this novel: nothing explicit, lots of hinting around, approval of casual premarital sex, (even parental approval)...more
The main topic of the book was being lost. Janie Johnson, a girl who really grew up with the name of Jennie Spring, is lost mentally, physically, and emotionally throughout her fifteen years of life.
Something as simple as a milk carton could change someones life forever. Who ever knew?
One thing that i really learned from this book though is being able to keep my cool and why i should. In situations where i become frustrated with the people around me, i learned that it is best to try...more
Something as simple as a milk carton could change someones life forever. Who ever knew?
One thing that i really learned from this book though is being able to keep my cool and why i should. In situations where i become frustrated with the people around me, i learned that it is best to try...more
I liked it, and will probably finish the series, but Janie/Jennie does get quite annoying during the story. She's spoiled and selfish (goes with being pampered upon by her "adopted" parents). She has thoughts about doing the right thing often in the story, yet consistently chooses the other path. Then, she complains about the choices made. She deserves a big ~eye roll~ several times. Anyway, if you're looking for a fairly easy book to pick up/read, go for it. I didn't realize this book...more
For the second book in a series, this book is pretty good. It kept me hooked, although the ending was kind of a disappointment. But I guess it just sets you up for the next book. I've always loved Caroline B. Cooney...but I feel like she does an excellent job developing her characters in this novel. Once again, she's proven to be a great mystery writer with excellent characters and a good plot. I recommend this to all young adults. There's nothing I would warn of...
The sequel to "The Face on the Milk Carton" was another terrific book. It could be used with students to show how to portray different views on the same subject. In this case, Janie's kidnapping. Janie is very hurt, angry, resentful, scared and confused about being torn from the people she considers her family, as well as her friends, to be returned to her birth family. There is resentment from her biological siblings about her return and the reader gets to see how severely their l...more
The second book in the "series" it comes after The Face on the Milk Carton after Janie sees herself on a milk carton claiming she is someone else and was kidnapped and has been missing all these years. This book explains what happened way back then and clears up some things that weren't explained in the first one. I know I read all these books in elementary school, but I remember at the time I read them very quickly because I was eager to know what happened next.
It was a great book. I really do feel sorry for the Spring family because Jennie/Janie wants to live back with her other family. So she moves back. But I;m happy that she gets along with both families well. At the end, I'm also happy that Stephen and Jody realize that their is no point in finding Hannah. The one who kidnapped Jennie/Janie and broken the Springs family. It was the past so they should move on. Overall, the book was great!
An alien life form reading this book might come to the conclusion that all American teenagers in the nineties thought entirely in similes and metaphors. Poor Janie/Jennie. The trauma of learning that she had been kidnapped as a child and being forced to return to live with her biological family has turned her brains into a literary slop bin; she can't even think straight, and so likens herself and her situation to nearly everything she experiences or encounters.
Even so, Cooney captur...more
Even so, Cooney captur...more
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It was an interesting book, nothing went as i thought it would have gone after janie was found by her family, well janie found her family. Janie was kidnapped when she was 3 and put into a different family and then she sees her face on a milk carton and then finds her family knowing that she was kidnapped. The family goes through this whole new experience and many changes and outlooks are made by janies re-appearace.
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