The Face on the Milk Carton

By: Caroline B. Cooney

Book Review By: Sable Lynn

Nobody in Janie’s school really paid attention to the missing children on the milk carton. Until one simple day at school Janie decides to look... She sees something weird. She recognizes the face of a little pigtailed little girl. The little girl had been kidnapped twelve years before at a mall in New Jersey. Janie also noticed the shirt the little girl was wearing. When she was little Janie had the same little white collared shirt. Janie thought that it couldn’t be her.

Janie starts to think who are those people in her house? Are they really her parents? Janie has to go back and try to piece back together her childhood. All of Janie’s friends think that she is crazy. Janie doesn’t know what to do. She starts to remember a woman from her past. What if that’s her real mother. When Janie goes to sleep at night that’s all she sees. Janie can’t believe that her loving parents kidnapped her, but as she begins to piece things together, nothing makes sense.

Janie doesn’t want it to be true. She didn’t want to think that she was kidnapped. She can’t seem to put the pieces together. She’s not sure what to do. Every morning she wakes up all drenched in sweat wondering whether it’s true or not. If it is, who are those people in her house? Who is Janie Johnson? Who is her real mother?