 "The Face on the Milk Carton Review and Summary" | 2009-05-28 |
| - Reviewed By Anonymous |
No one ever paid close attention to the missing children on milk cartons, until one day fifteen year old girl, Janie Johnson looks at a picture of missing little girl and realizes it `s her! There is only one difference on the milk carton her name, Jennie Spring. Other questions start to arise after this incident. Why has she never seen her own birth certificate? Who are her real parents and did her parents kidnap her? Janie tries hardly to ignore theses thoughts, but cant. She begins to have many flashbacks where she begins to remember her real family. Janie finally confronts her parents and finds out that her parents aren't her actual birth parents they are her grandparents and her actual mother is Hannah, the daughter of her current parents. Her parents explain how they lost Hannah to a cult, but she then showed up with Janie at their house. To protect Janie they changed their names and moved around. But, there is still one more unsolved question, Why was she on the milk carton. Reeve, Janie's boyfriend helps her by driving to meet her real family in New Jersey. All her memories turn out to be true as she sees her siblings. Janie doesn't have the courage to go confront her actual family. Janie finally phones the spring family to reveal she is their long-lost daughter
I really enjoyed "The Face on The Milk Carton." It was a suspenseful page-turner and makes you really think about how important it is to have family. The plot is very original and mind-blowing. The fast pace plot keeps you on your toes, so you never get bored of the book. |
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| "BUY IT NOW!" | 2009-04-02 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2BV5GIPQMHXHY |
| This book is about a 15 yr. old girl. She was at school and she had a milk carton and saw her face when she was younger. She has a boyfriend. There's a little romance and a little mystery. I liked this book because you don't know whats going to happen next. |
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| "Review #588 for a popular book!" | 2009-03-08 |
| - Reviewed By judys-books |
Note: The zeros were cast by a troll and her gang, not real and decent people, and are against me personally and not the book or the review!
We've all grown up with those faces staring out at us from the milk carton. What if one day, you are living your life, happy with your parents, and you recognize your face on the milk carton? That is exactly what happens to Janie Johnson in Caroline Cooney's best-selling "The Face on the Milk Carton." A sophomore in high school, Janie has been daydreaming about a more exotic name and bingo, she's Jennie Spring.
She doesn't want to tell the authorities because that would mean her parents, the ones she loves so much, are kidnappers, law breakers, and that just can't be right. She finally shares this burgeoning secret with her boyfriend, next-door neighbor Reeve, a senior.
Too many reviewers wrote spoilers into their reviews, so I'm avoiding that. What I want to emphasize is the mental horror of being the one whose life has been flipped 180. How can she not learn the truth, if there is a truth? She and Reeve take a road trip and learn as much of the truth as they can visually eyeball.
This is a heart-breaking story caused when one person acts irresponsibly. Two families are changed forever, irreparably so.
Another novel, The Deep End of the Ocean (Oprah's Book Club) by Jacquelyn Mitchard and written three years after "The Face on the Milk Carton" addressed a similar situation. A woman takes her three children to a class re-union and loses track of her youngest son for just five minutes and loses him forever. He does show up again, but he is no longer her son.
That's the situation Janie finds herself in. Whose daughter is she, really? The solution determined at the end is as close to reasonable as possible in the circumstances.
But wait, there's more: Whatever Happened to Janie?, then two more in the tetralogy. |
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 "Pretty Good" | 2008-10-25 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2S6IY660WZVXI |
| I remember reading this when I was 10 or 11 - 8 years ago. I don't remember everything to the T because it's been a while. But I do remember enjoying it thoroughly, and while a lot of reviewers are saying that the content is inappropriate, I didn't think so. I was a very sheltered child, and this book did not scar, confuse, or bother me in any way. Just thought I should throw that out there. |
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 "Face on the Milk Carton" | 2008-07-30 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2XZNZT1FZMH9P |
| I can't imagine what it would be like to one day see a missing child picture on a milk carton and find out it's YOU! Filled with suspense and drama and what the Johnson's are going to do, the Face on the Milk Carton is a must read. |
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| "Best book ever" | 2008-07-06 |
| - Reviewed By pminners |
| It was a wonderful book. there was a lot of detail to descibe the cherecters. It was also a cliff hanger which I loved about the book, and other books. It also had a little over romance, which droped my rating by .5, but there isnt a 4.5 option so I settled for 5. The romance enhanced the book, but not what happened when Janie and Reeve almost did going home from New Jersey. Yet, I cant imagine the book without Reeve. Other than that it was a fabolous book. |
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