The Face on the Milk Carton

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Summary: A disapionting and touching story!
Review: Janie Johnson thought she had a normal life. She was a normal redheaded, 15 year old girl, who was eager for a licence. She had friends, a mom, a dad, a very normal life. Janie was the only-child, no siblings. Until one day her life changed before her eyes. Janie was Lactose Intolerent. That means she can't have dairy products. Milk is a dairy product. One day Janie was at lunch envying the milk drinkers when it happened. Janie's friends checked their cartons to see who was missing this week. It was while Pete was talking about kidnapping and divorce that Janie stole Sarah-Charlotte's milk. She drank it in a flash. and on the back was it her. It couldn't be! Yes it could! Janie is so scared she couldn't think strait.That is when Janie and Reeve start the journey of a Lifetime. I loved this book. It is very well brought out on a sometimes hard thing to talk about...Kidnapping. I read this story and I will over and over. I hope you will have the chance to share my love for this book.

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Summary: That's strange!
Review: Do you know how many great books there are in the world? I don't , but I do know one great book. It is called The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B.Cooney. The book is filled with love, happiness, anger, and sadness. The book is about Janie Johnson, a teenager, who believes she was kidnapped when she was three from a shopping mall in New Jersey. It makes you wonder sometimes. The book is great because it is very informative and it explains all of the things Janie does to find out if she really was kidnapped. While searching for the answer, she loses a friend and a boyfriend because they both think that Janie is losing her mind when she tells them that she was kidnapped. But Janie refuses to give up. Will she ever find the answer? First you need to read The Face on the Milk Carton. Then you need to read Whatever Happened to Janie, the sequel, to find out what happens to Janie after she finds out the truth. You should get your hands on this marvelous book The Face on the Milk Carton!

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Summary: Then what happens?
Review: In this suspenseful book Janie Johnson sees her name on the missing section of a milk carton. In the picture she is twelve years younger. Janie thinks that her parents kidnapped her, that is until Hannah comes into the picture. Hannah is Janie's parent's daughter and Janie is Hannah's daughter. Throughout this whole story Janie is going out with Reeve, her next-door neighbor. At the end of the book Janie tells her parents and finally gets the courage to call the family that she was born into. The books end with a suspenseful line and then...

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Summary: Great book to introduce readers to a new author
Review: After seeing the made for TV movie based on The Face on the Milk Carton, I knew the book would be great. I had heard of Caroline B Cooney before, but never read any of her books, and decided to give her a try.

Janie Johnson thinks her name is boring, her life too generic, and wants an adventure, she wants to be someone else. As she sits in school and actually plans another life for herself, she knows it will never come true. But then, when her friends are all sitting around drinking milk from the school cafeteria, Janie can't believe her eyes. The picture of the missing child placed on the carton is herself. She remembers how she had her hair in pigtails, the dress she was wearing, everything.

Janie is taken on an emotional rollercoaster ride, not trusting her mom and dad anymore, not telling her best friend (oddly named Sarah-Charlotte), and at the same time fighting romantic feelings towards her friend - and neighbor - Reeve. Throughout the book Janie confronts her fears, aquires Reeve as more than a friend, and finds out what happened when she was three years old - and whisked away from her home and family, to a new, loving group of people.

This book is awesome, and I can't wait to read the next in the series, but this is definately not a book for kids under age 12. There is much talk aboud underaged, unmarried sex, and plenty of creepy - possibly frightening - nightmares that Janie suffers from.

Overall grade - A

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Summary: Really good, for something that I didn't know existed...
Review: Ok, you know how sometimes you walk through Borders and you're looking for something good to read? And the you walk over to the Young Adults section but can't seem to find anything good there because everything there is part of a series or is something that you've already read?

Maybe not. But that's the way I found this, by just looking through the book section with nothing else to read.

And I had no idea it was going to be this good when I found it in the store. The basic story is that Janie Johnson sees her 3-year-old face on a milk carton, and realizes that she had been kidnapped when she was three. After finding the family, she has to decide if she wants to give up her wonderful life to live with her birth parents. Cooney manages to convey Janie's feelings perfectly, while not actually telling it in first-person, which is something that is wonderful to be able to do.

Just be warned that if you check this out, it's a real page-turner. Don't start reading it at 10:00 at night because you're definitely not going to get to sleep by midnight. And do yourself a favor and buy all four books, because you're almost definitely going to want to read them after you finish the first.

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Summary: The Face On The Milk Carton
Review: What can you say about a girl named Jamie? Janie Johnson thinks her life is fine (except her name is boring) until she sees a milk carton picture of three-year-old missing child. Suddenly Janie's life becomes confused as she has flashbacks of her early childhood. She does some investigating at home and finds a locked trunk labeled with the name Hannah and the polka dot dress the child on the milk carton is wearing. Janie is haunted by unanswered questions: Are her parents really her parents? Who is Hannah? Does she have another family somewhere else?

The Face on the Milk carton was an epic book full of teen drama and sophisticated comedy. This book was fabulous though rated as a banned book because of the word nigger I believe that more teens should read books about this. The Face on The Milk Carton teaches you about kidnapping, honesty, friendship, families, cults, school life, but mostly self-esteem. The Face on the Milk Carton is a story equipped with romance and drama to help the reader cooperate with the characters. This book is a phenomenal novel that continues with two others after this one. This story is brought to life by the exciting characters and twisted plot that makes this a perfect story for any teenager thirteen and up. The Face on the Milk Carton is an enjoyable yet mature book that takes you places while also keeping you home. I'm not saying that Caroline B. Cooney the author of this story has created one the most greatest stories of all time because it's not there are a lot of pro's and con's about this story but I still think it decent and quite great for an early novel. The Face On The Milk Carton contains both good and bad qualities for instance the story is quite short and runny at times but it is also a relaxing novel with just the right amount.

The Face on the Milk Carton is a slow book at first and you would probably give it a three but after the first few chapters the story kicks into high gear as it teaches you about certain places cults and feelings. This book filled me with happiness, sadness, anger, sorrow, and belligerent joy, I have not read the other two stories but i am sure they shall be just as great as the first one after all it worked out for Harry Potter. If this review has not persuaded you to go get the story then suit you're self, but I urge you to buy it because it gives it's bang for it's buck. Rating this story I give it a 5 out of 5 but don't take my word for it go on and buy the book.

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Summary: The Face on the Milk Carton
Review: Suspicion, Curiosity, everything someone would be if you saw yourself on a milk carton. Hi, I'm Nina Minervini from Bak Middle School of the Arts, and the book that I read that I had to tell everyone about is The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B.Cooney. I thought this book was a great book for teenagers. This book is about how a normal teenager girl named Janie and she was living her life, and then one day when she got hot lunch with a milk carton for a drink,she saw herself on the back of the milk carton. This book brings many conflicts between her family, and friends. Also, tells how many things are hiding behind you and you have no idea. Her mom, and dad have been hiding this secret since she was a little girl. Once you read one page of this book, you can't put it down, and if you liked The Face on the Milk Carton so much, then go on ahead and read the sequel called Whatever Happened to Janie. I've read it and I thought it was even better than the first. So if you like suspicion books, or books with lots of secrets, I would read The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B.Cooney.

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Summary: Mystery about a girl who searches for the truth of her past.
Review: The Face on the Milk Carton, written by Caroline B. Cooney, is a story about a girl named Janie Johnson who leads a normal life until the day she notices a little girl on the back of a milk carton. She recognizes that the girl on the milk carton is herself. Janie learns the twisted tale of her kidnapping and tries to find her real past. This book is very entertaining. It always kept me on my toes. I wanted to know what would happen to Janie next. This book didn't answer all of my questions because there's a sequel. This book is good for a mystery lover because this is a mystery you wouldn't want to miss. The vocabulary in this book isn't very difficult and would be appropriate for some one that's 13-15 years old. The characters in the story are very believable. I could almost imagine them as being real people. This book is appropriate for kids my age because this situation can really happen. (I hope it won't though.) I recommend this book for anyone who likes a good mystery. One of the themes in this story is that you never really know about everything. This is pretty scary because it makes me wonder if my parents are really my parents.

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Summary: Milk Carton Review
Review: I read the book The Face on The Milk Carton. About a girl named Janie who finds her three year old face on a milk carton. It was then that Janie thought her parents kidnapped her but, it didn't make sense. She had wonderful, kind, loving, parents. She had to find out what happened to her and is she really Janie Johnson?
This book was a fair book to read. It's funny and intense. I would recommend this book but not highly.

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Summary: The Face on the Milk Carton
Review: I thought this was a pretty good book. I liked how the author described Janie's daydreams. Another reason is that it leaves you hanging, which I like. Some people don't like cliff hangers, so you might not like this book. I didn't like that it was the same old conflict, which is a girl named Janie who is trying to find out if she was kidnapped. Other than that the book was great.