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| Title: The
Face on the Milk Carton |
| Series:
The Janie
Quartet |
| Author:
C. B. Cooney |
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Reviewer: Nia H. '13
Janie Johnson has a normal life until she sees her picture on the milk carton at school. Janie and her boyfriend, Reeve, try to figure out why she is on the milk carton. Do they find out why? Read this excellent book to figure out if they do or if they don't. I would recommend this book to boys and girls who like mysteries.
Fall 2005 |
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Reviewer:
Kellie
B. '12
This is a book that is
filled with emotion, drama, surprises, and suspense. Janie is finding
out about her past, while living in the present. The missing girl
on the milk carton- well, Janie thinks that it is she. All of a
sudden, she can't think or sleep, and memories of when she was little
start to come back to her. Part way through the book you begin to
imagine what is going to happen, but then the author throws in more
twists and turns to keep you guessing and imaging the outcome.
Fall 2004 |
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Reviewer:
Ali P. '11 The Face on the Milk
Carton is a awesome book. It has a lot of suspense. It is about
this girl named Janie who sees herself on a milk carton. It looks
just like her when she was a little girl. She looks for clues to
find out what happened.
Winter 2004 |
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Reviewer:
Stefanie L. '10 Spring 2003
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Reviewer:
Rebecca O. '10
One day a teenage girl, Janie Johnson, takes
a sip from her friend's milk carton even though she is lactose intolerant.
Janie looks down at the carton and sees a familiar person on the
back of it. That familiar person has been kidnapped!
When she looks closer at the person, she recognizes it as herself!
Could she be kidnapped? If so, who are her real parents? Read
the book to find out.
Spring 2003 |
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| Reviewer:
Jackie G. '10 The Face on the Milk
Carton is about Janie, a girl who eats the same lunch everyday -
a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a small carton of milk.
Janie always looks at the back of the carton to see the picture
of the missing child. One day when Janie flips the carton over she
sees a picture of herself as a little girl. Janie goes to her mom
and asks to see her birth certificate. Her mom asks why Janie wants
to see it. Janie makes up a little white lie, but her mom still
does not show her the certificate.
To find out who that girl is on the back of
the milk carton, read this book. I recommend it to people who like
mysteries and suspense.
Spring 2003 |
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Reviewer:
Stephanie
S. '10
Janie is just an
ordinary girl when one day, she just happens to look on the back
of her friend's milk carton at school. Suddenly, Janie gets a
weird feeling in her stomach. The little girl on the back of the
milk carton was three years old, and had been kidnapped twelve
years ago in a shopping mall in New Jersey. Then it hits her.
She remembers the polka dotted dress in the picture. She remembers
those tight pigtails. That little girl is her!
Janie
doesn’t know how she ever could have been kidnapped. She has two
wonderful parents who would do anything to keep her safe. Janie
starts a little research and things only get more and more complicated.
Who is Janie really?
Winter 2002/2003 |
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| Reviewer:
Elizabeth
W. '10 This story is called The
Face on the Milk Carton. It is about a girl named
Janie who sees a face on a milk carton and thinks she has been kidnapped,
because the face on the milk carton looks just like her as a little
girl. She investigates this matter to find out and while
she is looking she meets a boy who she falls in love with.
Read this book and find out if she was really
kidnapped, and if her parents aren't really her parents, and who
that boy is that she's in love with!
Next in the series: Whatever
Happened to Janie
Fall 2002 |
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| Reviewer:
Alissa
F. '10 Janie, a 14 year old girl, looks at the missing
child on her friend's milk carton and realizes that it is her! In
he rattic she finds a dress that says "Hannah" on it.
In the chest is the same polka -dotteddress that is on the
milk carton! She finds all these other things out about when
she was little and weird things. Have her loving and caring parents
kidknapped her? Read the book to find out!!
Fall 2002 |
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| Reviewer:
Katie C.
08
One day a girl named Janie sees her picture on a milk carton. She
wonders if her parents are her real parents, or if she has different
parents. She tells her friends, but they dont believe her.
Janie goes through lots of things in their attic to see if she is
related to her family. She sees a box with a girls name on
it, but she doesnt know who the girl is. Janie asks her parents
whose trunk she found in the attic. Her parents say that it belonged
to their daughter and that they are her grandparents. But Janie
knows that she must have another family.
I like this book, and I would recommend
it to people who like romance and mystery.
Spring 2001 |
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| Reviewer:
Lauren L.
08 Janie Johnson was living a normal life until she saw
the picture on the milk carton. The person on the carton was Jamie.
How could this be? Her parents never told her about this. Mr. And
Mrs. Johnson arent the kidnapping type. Are they really Janies
parents? If not, what really happened to Janie? Who is she?
Fall 2000 |
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| Reviewer: Josh K. '07 The main
characters in The Face on the Milk Carton were Janie Johnston,
Janies parents and Reeve.
One morning Janie was eating lunch, looked on
a milk carton and found out that she was kidnapped. How could Janie
live through her life when she was kidnapped and never notice? That
was Janies question. Janie keeps getting more and more confused
as more strange events take place during the story. How will this
book turn out? Youll have to read it to find out.
I thought that this was an excellent book because
the chapters were all very suspenseful, and that made it hard to
stop reading. I thought this was a superior book, and if you want
to see if you like it as much as I did, then you should read The
Face on the Milk Carton.
1/31/99 |
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| Reviewer: Ben S. '07 It was
the red hair, two ponytails, and that awfully itchy collar of that
turtle neck, all there on the side of the milk carton that said,
"Missing." That locked box in the attic, the locked drawer
in the desk, the missing birth certificate, the shopping mall in
New Jersey, these are only some of the things mixed up in Janie
Johnsons life. As memories started to come back more questions
arose. Did she give up her family for an ice cream cone? Are her
parents kidnappers? Does she have a second life? Read The
Face on the Milk Carton to unwind the twisted tale of Janie
Johnson, or is it Javensen?
1/21/99 |
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| Reviewer: Abbe H. '07 Janie Johnson is a
Massachusetts teenager who drank milk from a carton and found a picture of a kidnapped
child displayed on it. Later Janie gets flash-backs of her childhood which leads her to
believe she was kidnapped. Janie starts an investigation by going to New Jersey where the
child was kidnapped, searching her parents attic, and asking questions of everyone.
Was Janie actually kidnapped or is it just her imagination?
10-27-98 |
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| Reviewer: Karin B. '06 The Face On The Milk
Carton was about a girl, Janie, and a boy, Reed. Janie was sitting in lunch one day
and decided to look at the lost little kid on side of the milk carton. When she looked,
she recognized the person. It was she. It couldnt be, she thought. I have loving
parents and a happy life. Still she couldnt help but keep the milk carton. Later
that week, she and Reed drove to New Jersey to find the family and they did.
I liked The Face On The Milk Carton because it kept me
wondering what would happen next, and it was hard to put the book down. I recommend this
book to anyone who likes books with mystery and a little romance.
6/8/99 |
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