Whatever Happened to Janie?

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Summary: Are They Really Your Parents?
Review: Do you ever wonder if your parents aren't really your parents? If you have, you should read Whatever Happened to Janie?, a story about a girl named Janie who finds out she was kidnapped when she was three years old. If you want an exciting story, you've found one. So read this book to find out what happens when your parents aren't really your parents.

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Summary: A MYSTERIOUS BOOK
Review: Whever happend to Janie? is a great book about a fifteen year old girl that has to leave her family that she grew up with to live with her real family. I liked this book because I enjoy mystery stories. I also like it because there is a sequel. The last reason I liked this book is I felt Iike I was really in the book. I would suggest this book to a friend if they liked The Face On The Milk Carton.When I say friend it could be an adult or a child.

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Summary: A sad story of difficult choices.
Review: "Whatever Happened to Janie" re-introduces the reader to 15 year old Janie Johnson whose life as the privileged, only child of a well-to-do Connecticut couple was shattered in the book "The Face on the Milk Carton." She discovered that the Johnson's were not her real parents, and that she had been kidnapped from her real family by the Johnson's real daughter, Hannah. Janie learned about why the Johnson's raised her as their daughter, and she learned about her real family, the Springs.

For twelve years the Springs of New Jersey have agonized over the loss of their middle daughter, Jennie. Her disappearance and the uncertainties of her fate have cast a pall on what is otherwise a large, boisterous family. Then after twelves years of worry, Jennie was found- alive and very well. The Springs demand that she come home to her real family.

Janie/Jennie is a total stranger to her real family. How can she adjust to this completly alien enviroment? How can she call Mr. and Mrs. Spring Mom and Dad, when she does not even know them? How can she relate to an older brother and sister who resent that she actually lived better than they did when they had feared her abused, dead, or worse at the hands of her kidnapper? How can she live without her life-long friends and her boyfriend Reeve? But she knows deep-down that she really is Jennie Spring and not Janie Johnson. In the end she must make the choice between the parents who gave birth to her and never gave up the hope of finding her, and the parents who raised her. There is no right choice here because innocent people will be hurt no matter what the decision. A poignant story, deeply reminiscent of Conrad Ricther's classic novel "The Light in the Forest," "Whatever Happened to Janie" makes for stirring reading. It's not perfect, some plotlines are not followed through, some characters underdeveloped, and the character of Reeve is a thumping bore, but it is still an outstanding story on difficult choices.

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Summary: Another good book by Caroline B. Conney
Review: This book Whatever Happend TO Janie was about a girl who finds out she doesn't live her real parents. So she confronts them about it'and it turns out that their real daughter kidnapped her. Then Janie ends up goingto live with her real parents.This was a really good book. I would give this book 4 stars because when she went back to her real parentsit got kinda slow and boring. Another good thing about this book is when it got started it usually kept you on your feet trying to find out what happens.

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Summary: Great
Review: This book was very sad. It's about a 15 year old girl named Janie Johnson or is it Jennie Spring? She finds out that at age three she was kidknapped. She decides to go live with her biological parents Mr. and Mrs. Spring in New Jersey. Her real family which includes an older brother, Stephen, an older sister, Jodie, and twin younger brothers, Brian and Brendan, are excited but Janie or Jennie is relunctant. When she arives everyone is warm wnd friendly but Janie is cold and she misses the family that raised her. When everything is said and done Janie makes a decision that will change both families lives.

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Summary: I thought it was Great!
Review: I thought this book was a great page turner and I would encorage you to read it. I can also say reading the face on the milk carton first will definently help you understand this book.

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Summary: An exciting book
Review: Book Report Whatever happened to Janie? By Caroline B.Cooney

Is Janie Johnson actually Jannie Spring? That is the question the main character is trying to answer in the novel called Whatever happened to Janie by Caroline B.Cooney. The theme of this book is kidnapping of young children and everything their family goes through even after they are found, if they are found at all. This book is a sequel of the famous book Face on the milk carton. The whole story starts in Connecticut, where Janie Johnson lived ever since she knew she existed. Everything became different when she found out she actually was not who she thought she was whole her life. She found out she was kidnapped by real daughter of her fake parents, Hannah, when she was three years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, her fake parents, never knew that because when Hannah brought Janie to their house, she told them Janie was her daughter and she asked them to take care of her because Hannah was involved in some kind of cult organization. Nobody knew why Hannah kidnapped Janie. Janie also found out that her real parents lived in New Jersey and that they've been hoping she would come back ever since she was three, when she got kidnapped. She also found out that her real name was not Janie, but Jannie. That is a brief summary of what happened in the first book, Face on the Milk Carton. The book I read, Whatever happened to Janie, talks more about Janie's, or Jannie's, life after she found her real parents. When she found out about the whole story, Janie decided to call her real family, so she dialed the number she saw on the milk carton, where her real family put her picture, and she talked to her real mom. Her mom, or Mrs. Spring, told her they have been waiting for her ever since she disappeared and she told her to come home as soon as she could. Janie did want to meet her real family, but she never thought about living with them and leaving her mommy and daddy. She knew she had to go, she was a minor and her real parents were the ones who deserved to have her and that's exactly what they wanted. Janie was very, very sad. She had a perfect life. She had the best parents she could possibly want, she had the best friends, she was popular, and she had a boyfriend whom she loved more than anything else. Her real family was very eager to meet her. They spent twelve years in fear. Since Jannie was kidnapped they never let any of their other children out of sight. They had four more children, Jodie and Stephen, who were around fifteen, same as Jennie, and two other twins, who were younger. Stephen and Jodie were the ones who suffered the most because of this fear. They were never aloud to go anywhere without their parents and their friends never understood that. That is why they, especially Stephen, have always hated Jennie. Now, when Jennie was coming, even though her kidnapping caused a lot of troubles to the family, Jodie still wanted to have a sister. She imagined them talking about many things, things she could never talk about with Stephen. The day when Jennie came, everybody was a little nervous, but as the days went by Jennie's attitude stayed the same. She missed her parents from Connecticut, and she always thought of them as her real parents. She never talked to any of her new family members, she never called Mr. and Mrs. Spring Mom and Dad, and on rear occasions when she talked, she always talked about her old parents. Her real family was very hurt, but they thought that time would help her get used to living with them. Unfortunately, that never happened. One morning when she woke up, she told Mrs. Spring she wanted to go back to her parents. Mrs. Spring knew that moment would come, and she knew she could do nothing about it. Janie spent her whole life with another family and she could never adjust to a totally new way of living, without anything and anyone she used to know. Mrs. Spring said yes and Janie went back to Connecticut. Johnson family was so glad to see her and from the day she left until that day they struggled as much as Spring family did. Even though they could do nothing about Janie's decision, Jodie and Stephen knew who did this to both, Spring and Johnson family. They knew it was Hannah, who kidnapped Janie twelve years ago. They wanted to get her. Even though nobody knew where she really was, they knew she was arrested for prostitution two years ago in New York. They knew she was still there because she was too poor to travel to anywhere else. They decided to go to New York. After they made their plan and actually went to New York, they found Hannah. It was clear to them, now, why police never arrested Hannah. They saw that with the kind of life she had, she had already paid the price for making two families struggle. She was a pauper. Janie stayed with Johnson family and she also wrote to her real, or may be not, mother, Mrs. Spring. She invited Jodie to Connecticut and Jodie knew she was going to go. Janie knew Springs were her real parents and she never forgot that, but she also knew that living with Johnson family, where everything she loved was, was right. This is one of the best books I have ever read. It is a real "page turner". You cannot stop reading it till you find out what happens at the end. If I had to rate the book in scale from one to ten, I would give it an eight because the book is very fun to read, but sometimes hard to follow. The first thing I like about this book is that you can never know what is going to happen next and that makes you want to read the whole book at ones. For example, one chapter finishes when Janie asks her mom if she can go back to Johnson family. That makes you want to read the next chapter and see what happens. This novel is very easy to read and the fact that it is very exciting and thrill makes it even easier to read. The other thing I like about it is the way author describes the characters' feelings. When she describes how the character feels you can actually feel that and imagine exactly how it feels. For example, this is a paragraph that describes how Janie spent the nights with her new family:

"She needs books. Since Jodie could sleep with the lights on, Janie would read into the night, keeping nightmares at bay. Her dreams were of falling. The cliff she clung to crumbled and everything around her was bottomless. Dark and slippery with the grime of evil. She would wake up drenched with sweat in the tight little bedroom only a few feet separating her from the new sister whom she could not enjoy, and who definitely did not enjoy her." From this paragraph you could feel and imagine how hard Janie's nights were and her nights were also illustrating her life with her new family. The author also used a lot of simile and metaphor to describe the mood of the story better and clearer. This book makes you think a lot. It is very hard to imagine a person in as hard situation as Janie is in. Even though I did not like some things Janie did, I know that if I were in a similar situation, I would do something similar. The theme of this book and the conflict it deals with make it special. The kinds of conflict that can be found in this book are person vs. person and person vs. him/herself. When Janie tries to make herself love her new family and she actually does not want to become one of them, that is when she has a conflict with herself. When her sister and brother get mad at her for not trying to adjust to a new way of living, person vs. person conflict appears. Ever since I started reading this book I thought that all of these conflicts were gonna disappear and the story was gonna have a happy end. On my surprise, the end was not happy at all. That is one thing I did not expect from this book. In this novel author uses 3rd person point of view and sometimes, when she wants to emphasize something she uses 1st person point of view. Sometimes the book is hard to follow because the author changes the point of view. First, she describes the situation from one character's point of view and then the next paragraph describes how another character sees that whole situation. One thing I do not like about this book is that it is necessary to read the first book The face on the milk carton in order to understand the story better. I think that author should have explained the plot and the setting of the story better. Instead, the main thing the author focuses on is the mood of the story, characters and their feelings. I also like the books that leave us with some unanswered questions, and in this novel we never got to know why Hannah kidnapped Janie. After reading this book I am left with a whole new aspect of looking at the cases of kidnapping. Now, I know that even if a kidnapped person is found after many years, the problems are still there and it takes a lot of time and effort to get over them. In this novel, Caroline B.Cooney describes the problem better than anybody else and gives us the point of view of every single person that struggles because of the problem. This story can teach us a lot more about our own families, friends, and even the general meaning of life.

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Summary: A sad yet Pleasent Story
Review: I think that the book "Whatever Happened to Janie?" is an outstanding book. It's very exciting to see what happens next, so you can never put it down. It's sad that Janie was not doing well with The Springs. It's pleasent when she saw Reeve. She is really a girl who is very confused. Over all it is a very good book. It's full of twists and turns.

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Summary: A Great Companion!
Review: Looking for a Great Book? Well look no further, Whatever Happen to Janie? is a terrific book. If you read The face on the Milk Carton then you have to read the sequel. At the end of the first book you were left on the edge of your seat wondering what would happen to Janie Johnson next. Well now you can find out. The best part of the sequel is learning how Janie or "Jennie" adjust to new life with her real family. Well now you know this is a great book! So what are you waiting for? Go get it!

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Summary: Great Book!
Review: This book was a really good book. It is the second book in a series, so if you don't read the first one you probably will not understand the second one. I read this book because I wanted to find out what happened in the end. And that's what you'll have to do too. I like these kinds of books because you're never really sure about whats going to happen until the end. The main problem Janie has in this book is, wether or not she should stay with her real parents. Janie finds out that her real family isn't that bad. But there were some things she couldn't stand about them, such as the way they're always on the run. That reason among many other reasons made me think she would leave. But later on she started to act like them, and she says she feels like one of them. When she started to feel this way it made me think she would stay. I liked the way she kept on changing her mind, then you never knew what was going to happen. Another thing I liked was how different the author made the two homes. So read the book to find out wether or not she stays.