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Summary: Great read, Yet less interesting than first book...
Review: Yes, Whatever Happened To Janie was an eventful page-turner. Though, if you have read The Face on the Milk Carton, you may agree with me as i found that it was more suspensful. I enjoyed the first one more. I stopped reading this great 4 part novel set at this book because i believed that the last two would only involve simple repition. By all means, read the Whatever Happened To Janie, it is an extraordinary book.
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Summary: A GREAT SEQUAL
Review: This Book is an awesome sequal to the first book, THE FACE ON THE MILK CARTON, and can not be gone without. The book contains some content that may not be appropriat for someone younger than 7th grade (I am 13). I thorughly enjoyed this book because I love suspense stories like those oh Cooney and M.H. Clark. I can not see how anybody who has read the first book can go without this book. Right now I am reading THE VOICE ON THE RADIO and will continue on to WHAT JANIE FOUND when I finish it.
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Summary: "Whatever Happened to Janie"
Review: This book was a great sequel to "The Face on the Milk Carton." I loved the first book, and I love this one equally. I finished this book in a couple of hours because there are so many clues along the way that you just HAVE to find out what the outcome is. I'm going out to get the third book now!
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Summary: Whatever Happened To Janie
Review: Whatever happened to Janie is the companion to The Face on the Milk Carton.One day Janie Johson drinks her friends milk on the carton she sees a little girl; the little girl was her. She couldn't believe it, the little girl was taken from a mall when she was three years old. Her name was Jennie Spring. She just couldn't believe that her parents were kidnappers. But, they weren't; their daughter Hannah had joined a cult and for company she took Jennie Spring. She then went to her parents and said that Jennie was her daughter. They believed her and took Janie in as their own. What was Janie to do?
I enjoy this book it always leaves you hanging and wanting more. You know it's not a true story,but you can it as happening in real life. To me I can tell that books are good when I can imagine it as a T.V. show. I also like it because it shows the relationships and feelings of the people.
My favorite part in the book was after she moved in with the Springs; it was her first day at the new school. It was her first exam and in the space to put her name she didn't know what to put. She didn't know which person she was; so she put Jennie Spring in her best script. She then crossed it out in a thick black line and wrote Janie Johnson in her best script.
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Summary: Who Should She Be? Jennie or Janie
Review: This is a story about a little girl who was going by the name of Janie. She was living a life of lies. At age three she was kidnapped by a girl named Hannah. Hannah then took her to her parents and told them that she could not take care of her. So Hannnah's parents took care of her. As she got older she was realizing who and what her real life was like when she finds out she was kidnapped. She went back to her real mother and father, but didn't like what all was going on there with three other kids in the house. She felt misplaced in that family. She would think of her self Jennie Spring or Janie Robertson? She could not figure out who to be. You will have to read this amazing book "Whatever Happened To Janie" to figure the rest of this great book.
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Summary: Brianna's review
Review: The novel was excellent. It had a good plot and was very interesting. It had great details, although the ending was a little plain. Altogether it was a pretty good book.
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Summary: Whatever Happened to Janie?
Review: Janie is a "dizzy redhead" as her boyfriend, Reeve, calls her. He is correct. Janie is dizzy in two ways - she's light and airy, but she's also confused and frightened. Because one day, she was looking at the missing three-year-old on the milk carton, and it was herself staring back up at her.
Whatever Happened to Janie? continues to explain Janie's story. It is a fabulous book, and I couldn't recommend it more. Janie has more problems than most teenagers face - she has two families, one is the parents of her kidnapper (they thought she was their granddaughter) and her biological parents. How could she stop being Janie Johnson and start being Jennie Spring? It's an interesting question.
Mr. and Mrs. Spring are Janie's biological parents. They're great people, and it's not their fault that Janie can't accept being Jennie Spring. Reeve, Janie's boyfriend, is a great tower of strength in her hard times. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are the people who Janie still calls "Mommy and Daddy" because they are, after all, the ones who raised her.
There's a bad guy in almost every book or story, and in this one, Hannah is the bad guy. She kidnapped Janie while her family was shopping in a shoe store, and fooled her into coming into a car with her. She gave Janie to her parents, who thought that Janie was Hannah's daughter and their granddaughter. So as a result of Hannah's crime, Janie and her families have to adjust to this new life.
Will Janie accept being Jennie Spring? Will she even try to love her new family? You've got to read the book to find out!
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Summary: What really Happened?
Review: I loved the first book "The Face on the Milk Carton" It was very exciting and i thought that if that was good, i bet that this would be better and i was right. Why read it? Well this book is about this girl, Janie finds that she was kidnapped...
This BOOK IS SUPERB!!!
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Summary: Incredible Sequel To The Face on the Milk Carton
Review: "Whatever Happened to Janie?" begins with Jodie Spring (Janie Johnson's biological sister) getting ready for Janie's arrival. At first, I thought the story was going to be told from Jodie's point of view, and I was on the verge of setting this book aside. I didn't think Jodie would be the best choice for a protagonist; I wanted Janie back. But by the second chapter, I realized the book would be alternating between the other characters in the book, not just one. This is definitely a change from "The Face on the Milk Carton" where it was only Janie telling the story, and I think this way is much more effective; now everybody can voice their opinion, even if they don't verbalize it to each other.Once Janie arrives at the Spring's home, she immediately feels homesick. She can't get used to calling the Springs her family, or responding to her birth name: Jennie Spring. Everything they do, how they live, etc.--all of it's alien to her. And she certainly doesn't hold back her feelings, even if it hurts them. It's almost as though Janie wants to hurt them, to make them pay for separating her from her parents. Obviously, there's a lot of resentment between Janie and her two siblings, Stephen and Jodie. From the start, Stephen isn't very accepting, and with his temper, it doesn't look like Janie and he will ever be friends. Jodie, on the other hand, wanted another sister. After all, she was the only girl among three other brothers (Stephen and the twins, Brendan and Brian). But Janie's resistance ruins Jodie's hope of having the perfect relationship with her sister. I don't think one person is left unscarred in this book. If it's not from the transition of a new family member, it's the reopening of old wounds by the FBI who want to find Janie's kidnapper, Hannah Javensen. Despite Janie's harsh decision in the end, I thought it was the right one, although it hurt the Springs tremendously. The whole ordeal was well-written, and if you like true-to-life events, then I highly recommend the Janie series: "The Face on the Milk Carton", "Whatever Happened to Janie?", "The Voice on the Radio", and "What Janie Found".
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Summary: Not as good as the first three.....
Review: Caroline Cooney had me totally engulfed in the story in the first of her series, "The Face on the Milk Carton". The following two books were good solid reads, however this final book of the series, "Whatever Happened to Janie?" left me feeling unsatisfied. The whole package didn't wrap up as neatly as I thought it would -- or perhaps just not the way I would have wanted it to end. While the first three books were "couldn't put down" type of reads, this last one I could easily have quit in the middle. It didn't have the holding and staying power of her earlier books. I was disappointed in it.
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