1)Caroline
B. Cooney ,born May 10, 1947 , is an American author of suspence,
romace, horror, and mistery books for young adults. She currently
resides in Fort Mill.
2)A typical school day shatters for
fifteenyear-old Janie Johnson during lunch period as she stares at
the picture of a kidnapped child on the milk carton that she
recognizes as herself. This incident trips a series of flashbacks
where Janie Johnson (actually Jennie Spring) begins to remember her
family and the circumstances surrounding her abduction. With support
from her boyfriend Reeve, Janie eventually confronts
her parents and learns that she was left with them by their daughter
Hannah. The Johnsons believe Hannah, who tells them Janie is their
granddaughter, and that both Hannah and Janie are being pursued by a
religious cult that Hannah joined when she ran away from home. When
Hannah deserts the Johnsons and Janie, they take their granddaughter
and flee their former life—moving to Connecticut, changing their
last name from Javenson to Johnson— to avoid being discovered by
the cult.
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Janie Johnson
Janie Johnson is a fifteen year-old girl. She is pretty with a wild, chaotic mane of red curls glinting gold. Janie is in a difficult age. She is searching for her own identity. Janie does not have any brothers and sisters. She would like to have a boy-friend, but she does not know how to find one (in the beginning of the book) because her parents are very strict. She is not allowed to go out alone in the evening.Janie is a curious girl. She wants to know everything and to find out everything. On the whole, she lives a happy life with her parents - until one day! She has a lot of friends and she does not have a lot of problems. Like every teenager, she loves talking on the phone.
Later on you realize how important it is for this girl to find out the truth. She has a special problem with her identity. She is not just a youngster but she does not really know who she is
Reeve
Reeve is seventeen years old and Janie's neighbor. He goes to the same school as Janie does. He has already his driving licence and he often takes Janie to school or home. He has two older sisters and one older brother. He plays an important role in this book because he becomes Janie's boy-friend who tries to manage her problem. He supports Janie being a very caring person but he has his own opinion. Through the whole book, he knows what he wants and he knows how to reach his aim. Reeve likes Janie's parents very much. He often has lunch with her family. He knows Janie and her family for a very long time.Sarah-Charlotte
Sarah-Charlotte is in Janie's class. She is her best friend. She has white-blonde hair and according to the descriptions in the book, she is a pretty girl. Like Janie, she loves talking on the phone and her line is often busy. For her, boys play a very important role in her life. She is interested in having a steady relationship with a boy who has to be tall, muscular, smart, courteous, and rich. She supports Janie, she is a good friend, but she does not believe everything that other persons - for example Janie - tell her.Mr. and Mrs. Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are Janie's parents. They are very caring parents and they love Janie very much. When Janie is out, her mother is always scared. She always wants to know where Janie is. She never allows her daughter to go to the shopping mall alone. Her parents both work during the whole day. Mrs. Johnson works in a hospital and Mr. Johnson in an office. For them, their daughter is the most important treasure, they give her everything they can, but not enough liberty. They are rather old compared with other parents of children in Janie's age.- I think the reationship to her parents is good,
because she lives a happy live and she has no sisters or brothers.
- I was very intrestet in the black book, which we
got in the school, and yeah , i think it´s a little bit scary isn´t
it? And that makes me to like this book best.
- Yeah, i think it´s a really good idea, because everyone buy a lot of milk cartons in the supermarket and it goes round and round in the city and the missing child has a better way to be found.
- She wears a dress with a narrow white collar.
Janie believes that it is her own picture on the milk carton. She
thinks that she really has recognized her own face in the milk
carton.
- She informs her mother that she will not get her
driver's licence without the birth-certificate. But her mother
cannot give it to her because it is at the bank.
- I think that she should know it, because she is old enough to learn who she really iI would be very sad and lonely. If i would be in such bad situation, i would go out of my parents way and yeah. If they dont tell me the truth, i will go to my aunt i would say. The most time i would try to find some information and yeah.
- When her parents are out, Jane climbs up to the attic where she finds different things. For example she finds the dress that was printed on the milk carton. Furthermore she finds a picture of a girl called Hannah. She tells Reeve what she has found out and his boy-friend telephones his sister Lizzie who will be an attorney later on. She knows the Johnsons fairly well and he is sure that these people never could do such a thing. But she speculates that Hannah could play a role in this case.
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- I liked reading "The Face on the Milk Carton".It is an interesting theme because in our days there are so many children who disappear and are never found again. The parents never know whether they just ran away or if they were kidnapped. This book really shows the problems you have to face in such a situation when you discover that you may once have be been kidnapped and do not live with your real parents.
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