Search - The Face on the Milk Carton

I haven't found a child that didn't like this book :) It is a suspenseful read that isn't too difficult.

Some of us are old enough to remember when the pictures of missing children were featured on milk cartons.

This is the first book in the Janie series, and the only one of the 4 I really enjoyed, although it does leave you with more questions than answers.

I started reading all four books when I was 15 and been reading them over and over again eversince (I'm 23 know), but this one is my favorite. I wish more books put you on the edge like this one. Also Coroline B. Cooney is a great writer. For all ages.

Like many women of my generation, I originally read this book when I was in middle school, not too long after it came out. Along with Sweet Valley High and The Babysitters Club, this was one of my favorite go to reads. It was always easy to pick up, and seemed light hearted at the time. At this point, I probably haven’t read this book in at least sixteen years, so I was curious to see how it would hold up when I compared it to my memories.

As a kid, I was fascinated by Janie’s life and the disaster that was crashing down around her. I was the oldest of six kids and I’d be lying if I said I didn’t envy Janie. It always seemed like a nice idea, to go from a huge family to a small one. Except, of course, Janie didn’t know where she had come from, so she wasn’t exactly relishing in it like I imagined I would have been. So to an extent, this was a fun escape fantasy for me when I was younger.

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This is the second in this series I've read about child abduction. Telling the story from the child's viewpoint at 16 is quite interesting. When a teenager finds her face on a milk carton she begins to remember her lost childhood. She was abducted at age three and the memories come back slowly, stimulated at first by the dress the little girl is wearing that she remembered. The vacillating emotions seem natural as she wonders what her parents were like but still she loves the parents she now has. Did her current parents taker her from her original family? I think the author caught the emotions quite well - so well that at times I felt like crying with this young woman. How the story is resolved continues in following books.

A good book, suspenseful. i would recommend it for young adults