The Face on The Milk Carton
By: Caroline B. Cooney
The Face on The Milk Carton has two main characters. Janie is mostly the main character and Reeve is another character.
Janie is a 15 year old girl who has recently discovered she was kidnapped when she was little. Janie is just a freshman girl with long red hair. She has a milk allergy.
Reeve is a popular, senior boy in high school and also Janie's next door neighbor. He has known Janie almost all her life. He is tall and has dark brown hair.
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Caroline B. Cooney
Caroline B. Cooney was born in Greenwich, Connecticut on May 10, 1947. She has loved reading since she was a young child. Cooney loved school and all the activities having to do with it. Caroline began writing in college. She never understood why people always think writting is so difficult and agonizing. It was always fun for her. Some of her many books include:
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"The Face on The Milk Carton"
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"Whatever Happened to Janie?"
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"The Voice on The Radio"
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"What Janie Found"
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"Burning Up"
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"For All Time".
This is one of her books.
Cooney received tons and tons of letters from readers who wanted to know what happens after Janie called her real parents phone number. Her daughter is the one who actually came up with the idea for the sequel to The Face On The Milk Carton.
www.teenreads.com/authors/au-cooney-caroline.asp
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_B_Cooney
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Main Conflict
Person vs. Self
Janie vs. Herself
Janie cannot decide whether to tell her parents that she thinks she was kidnapped when she was little. She then tells her neighbor Reeve, who becomes her boyfriend, her secret. Janie ends up telling her parents and it becomes a huge deal.
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Setting
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October
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Fall
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East Coast
"It was October. Outdoors throbbed with autumn, She could feel the pulse of the deep-blue skies. With every leaf wrenched off its twig and whirled by the wind, Janie felt a tug. She felt like driving for hours; taking any road at all; just going."
page 1
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Point Of View
The point of view of The Face on The Milk Carton is third person limited.
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Plot Line
Exposition
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Janie Johnson (15 years old)
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Neighbor Reeve (senior in high school)
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She sees milk carton with her as a child on it.
Rising Action
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Janie tells Reeve that she thinks she was kidnapped when she was young.
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Janie and Reeve skip school and drive to New Jersey where her real family lives.
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She writes what she thinks happened in a letter.
Climax
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She puts the letter in an envelope and addresses it.
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She loses it and believes it got sent to her real parents.
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Plot Line
Falling Action
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Janie tells her parents what she thinks happened to her.
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She also tells her parents about the letter and how she thinks it might have gotten sent.
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Her parents panic.
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They tell Reeve's sister who is a lawyer everything that has happened.
Resolution
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Janie's mom dials Janie's real parents phone number, who live in New Jersey.
"It rang once more. In New Jersey somebody picked up the phone.
"Hello?" said a woman's voice.
Janie clung to her mother. She said, "Hi. It's....youre daughter. Me. Jennie."
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Themes
One of the themes in this story is know who you are, and be happy with that.
Recommendations
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes reading, but especially people who don't enjoy reading. I say this because I myself don't enjoy reading at all and when i began reading The Face on The Milk Carton I never wanted to stop. I really enjoyed this book because it is suspenseful and is sort of a mystery. The author leaves the readers wanting to know what happens next, but doesn't give you a hint at all.
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