Whatever Happened to Janie?

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Summary: "Whatever Happened to Janie?"
Review: This book is a great sequel to, "The Face on the Milk Carton." It is packed with sad scenes, funny scenes, and it never made me feel bored. I always wanted to keep reading, and never set the book down. I would recommend this book to children, teenagers, and adults who are mature and ready to face real life situations that can occur.
In this book, the reader will be re-introduced to Janie Johnson, a loved, only child, and ordinary 15 year old teenager whose life is broken into a million pieces when she discover that she was kidnapped by the Johnson's daughter, Hannah. Janie finds out why, and how all of this happened. She also learns more about her biological family, the Spring's.
It had been about 12 years since the Spring family had seen Janie, who they called Jennie. After all of the fear and curiosity that had been put into the past Janie, or to the Spring's Jennie, was finally coming home. There was no need to worry anymore whether or not she was scared, hungry, in pain, or unhappy. She was coming home.
How could Janie live with total strangers? How could she call these strangers mom and dad, or brothers and sisters? How could she adjust into becoming a middle child rather than an only child? How could she leave Janie Johnson behind when she knew deep down inside of herself that she was Jennie Spring? You can find out all of these answers and who she really believes she is, Janie Johnson or Jennie Spring, if you read this excellent book that teaches you that there are some very difficult situations in life.

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Summary: An Identity Crisis
Review: Whatever Happened To Janie? is the exciting sequel to 'The Face on The Milk Carton. Janie Johnson now lives in New Jersey with her real family, leaving behind Frank and Miranda Johnson, whom Janie still considers her real mom and dad. Janie is having a very hard time living with the Springs.
The Springs are a very nice and caring family. The mother and father who are ever-so-rightly overprotective of the other Spring children: Stephen, Jodie, and the twins, Brendan and Brian. They keep trying to pull Janie
back into their mold. However, so far Janie is resisting. The Springs keep calling Janie by her birth name, Jennie, and the people Janie sees every day now at school calll her Jennie Spring instead of Janie Johnson. Janie is very torn because she feels like she is two different people. Janie herself has called her other half the bad half. She usually acts as the 'bad twin' when she is with Mr. and Mrs. Spring and her siblings. Janie Johnson is the bad person inside of her that she can't let go. Janie's older brother Stephen especially hates Jennie. He blames Jennie for ruining their lives. They had to live in the same house for twelve years because her dad would never accept a promotion, because of his daughters kidnaping.

Jodie wishes that Jennie would act like a real sister instead of acting like a prisoner in their home. Jodie doesn't understand why Jennie keeps running away from them ... Jennie acts like they would strike at her or yell at her all of the time. Jodie loves her family and town, and thinks they're really neat. However, Jodie realizes that Jennie had a completely different upbringing than she did. Frank and Miranda Johnson showered Jennie with not only love, but also lots of money, clothes, and whatever Jennie wanted. Jennie is so confused about her relationships with the Springs and the Johnsons. Then Jennie realizes something that terrifies her. She doesn't have enough love to go around for both of the families. Will the Springs and the Johnsons be able to work things out and keep Jennie in both of their worlds? Or will Janie Johnson be stuck with two names for the rest of her life?

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Summary: Whatever Happened to Janie? Book Review
Review: Janie Johnson was the girl who thought she had it all, a family, friends, a boyfriend, a great house with a big room and anything she wanted. Then she saw her face on the milk carton and her life began to unwind. She can't sleeep because of the constant nightmares about her being kidnapped. It's hard to visualize her lovign caring parents being the bad guys, could they really have taken her from her real family? Her life begins to fall completely apart, she is having flashbacks of her old life and realizes it must be true but she can't tell anyone in fear of her parents being sent to jail. She needs to know what really happened and begins to explore her home for a clue to what really happened she needs to prve to herself that her parents are the guys she thinks they are. She uncovers the secret up in the attic and what really happened begins to unwind.