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Written: Jun 03 '02 (Updated Jun 03 '02)
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Pros: keeps you hanging
Cons: none
The Bottom Line: great book
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The Unknown Face
The book, “The Face on the Milk Carton” was a great story about a ten year old girl named Janie. The story begins when in school at lunchtime. While Janie’s friend Sarah Charlotte left the table, Janie took her milk and drank it even though she was lactose intolerant. Janie saw a picture of a girl who looked similar to herself on a kidnapping picture on the carton. Janie thought that the girl could be her and she wondered who would have kidnapped her; her mom or her dad. She kept on day-dreaming about it for many days until she told her boyfriend Reeve about it. He tried to put her mind off of the milk carton a little bit.
On the milk carton, the name of the girl was Jennie Spring and she was kidnapped from a shopping mall in New Jersey. Janie went in her attic and found all of these papers about a girl named Hannah. She also found a polka-dotted dress like the one the little girl in the picture was wearing. She finally decided to talk to her parents about it. They said that Hannah was their daughter and she went to join a cult and never came back. Her parents said that they were Janie’s grandparents. Reeve told his sister about it and she said that Hannah probably kidnapped Janie because she was lonely at the cult and dropped her off at her parents’ house.
One day while Reeve was driving Janie to school, she asked him to go to New Jersey to where Jennie Spring lived. She saw kids with red hair like hers and a dog that she remembered. She could not take it anymore so they went home. The end of the story leaves you hanging wanting you to read the next book in the series.
Milk Carton Causes Bad Daydreams
In the story, “The Face on the Milk Carton”, the antagonist is not a person. The antagonist is the milk carton. The milk carton seemed to cause nearly all of the trouble in the story. Every time the character named Janie looked at it, it made her think about things that she did not want to think of.
The milk carton had a picture of a three year old girl on it. The girl looked exactly like her, she thought. The pictures on the back of every milk carton were pictures of kidnapped children. She thought, “What if I did get kidnapped.” She looked at the name and it was Jennie Spring. Her name was Jane Johnson she thought. The little girl on the carton was wearing a polka-dotted dress. Janie found that same dress in her attic about one week later. She thought about this for a very long time. Each time she looked at the back of the milk carton, she would get these memories. Thinking about this all of the time made her have daydreams and drove her crazy!
Learn About Janie and Reeve
The main character in this story is Jane Johnson. She is fairly short with straight red hair. She is also sixteen years old with brownish eyes. She plays a very important role in the story. This is because the story is basically about her. In the beginning of the story, she discovers herself on a kidnapping picture on a milk carton. Then, throughout the story, she thinks about whether she was kidnapped and wonders who her parents really are.
Towards the middle of the story, she finds out what her real name is because she talked to her parents. It was really surprising that her real name is Jane Javeson. Her grandparents are who she thought her real parents were.
Another important character is Janie’s boyfriend Reeve. Reeve is pretty tall and has brown hair. He is very important because he helped Janie with her problems. He gave her all of the advice that he could. At the end of the story, Reeve got into a fight with Janie but eventually Janie and he made up. The entire story is based around Janie and Reeve and that is why Janie and Reeve were very important characters.
Story Keeps Readers Hanging
I think this book was a great mystery book. This is because it always grabbed your attention and it made you want to read more. You never wanted to stop reading it. The book was also very exciting especially the part when Janie and her boyfriend Reeve went to New Jersey to find Mrs. Spring who was the mother of the kidnapped girl. You really wanted to know what the outcome of the story was. By doing this, the author grabbed your attention. Also at the end, the author left you hanging. You wanted to know what would have happened next and you just wanted to read more. Was Mrs. Spring Janie’s real mother? I wanted to get the sequel right away.
I would recommend that children from ages 10-14 read this book. This is because if you are under 10 you might not understand it because it has many difficult words. If you are older, you really wouldn’t like it because it probably wouldn’t be your type. Otherwise, I think that this book was great no matter who reads it.
Recommended:
Yes
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