Whatever Happened to Janie?

Janie went missing for a long time. her family thought she was dead but she wasn't. She was living with another family but she thought that was her real famimly. She was going to Have to her real family's house when they found her. She was nervous and scared.
D.S.

Wow I almost forgot about this book til it showed up on my "recommendations." I read this book in elementary school and I remember loving it. Its a follow up to the book "Face On the Milk Carton" which is also a great book. If I remember correctly they also made it into a movie. Good read for young

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I am reviewing Whatever Happened to Janie? This book was written by Caroline B. Cooney and is the sequel to The Face on the Milk Carton. This was a wonderful sequel and met my expectiatations. The characters were real, however, I do still feel that the story line is a little far fetched.
The Face

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on the Milk Carton left off with Janie phoning her real parents. In Whatever Happened to Janie? Janie goes to live with her real parents. During the stay, Janie acts like a complete brat. At the end of the book, Janie decides to live with her parents in Conneticut, her real parents agree and Janie moved back.
This was a good book and I recommend it to younger audiences. I thought that it was a great sequel to The Face on the Milk Carton and is defiantely worth reading.

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Janie is reuniting with her real family and is missing her kidnapping family. Janie is going to go live with her real family will she like them or not?

This is the sequel to The Face on the Milk Carton. What Happened to Janie is the story of Janie’s transition back to Jennie. She is sent to live with her birth parents and trying to fit into a large, noisy family. We switch back and forth between characters, seeing most events from Janie’s

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perspective, but occasionally from other family members as well. Janie is overwhelmed by new parents, having siblings, going to a new school, living in a new state, even having a new, unwelcome name. I found it a little unbelievable that all these changes would be forced on a young girl without any apparent counselling. At first she is even discouraged from getting in touch with the people she still sees as her real family. The adult point of view appears to be that she will have to eventually get used to it. I think it would have been more realistic for Janie to be slowly introduced to her original family, not thrown in right off the bat.

Janie is a very likeable character and I found myself rooting for her. I couldn’t imagine what is must be like for a fifteen year old to have her identity ripped away and a new one forced on her. I so hoped for a happy ending here, but like real life there is no neat ending with everything tied up in a bow, Janie turns sixteen and is finally able to make some choices for herself. No matter what Janie decides there will be people hurt, and a family torn apart. There are two more books in this series, and as the author has done a nice job in capturing my interest and concern, I will keep reading this hoping perhaps not for a happy ending, but one that will be acceptable.

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I didn't mean to read this book, it was just sitting there. Thrust aside as the second in a series that I was not able to locate the first. Honnest it was an accident.
Despite being the second in a series it was a stand alone book, there was nothing that was missing or sections where you felt you

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were having a quick update from the other book. Where informtion needed to be passed a number of different techniques were used from flash backs to telling other characters. when this ws done there was always more to the passage so that those who had read the first book would still see a progression and not simply a retelling.
The story is of a girl who discovers from a picture on a milk carton that she is infact not the daughter of teh people she calls mom a dad but a kidnap victim (the first book). this second book covers what happens after she has it confirmed, the meeting of her other family and how they react to her. The emotional turmoil that she and all of the those arround her suffer.
It is a teen book, but a good one.

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This book picks up right where the first book ("The Face on the Milk Carton") left off. After discovering that she was kidnapped at the age of three, Janie is forced to live with her "birth" parents, much to her dismay. She is rude and obnoxious and makes little attempt to blend in or get to know

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her birth family. Although not as good as the first book, i thought this was an interesting read. I can see its appeal to teenagers, and would not hesitate to recommend the series.

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I absolutely loved the dynamics between the characters. I just wanted to slap the sh*t out of Jodie and Stephen and tell them to f*ck*ng get over it, but it was very realistic in the portrayal of teenagers who've lived through something traumatic.

A continuation of The Face on The Milk Carton. Janie has to go live with her "real" family, even though she considers her other parents to be her "real" parents. She has a hard time going from being an only child to being one of five noisy children, all the while missing her boyfriend and other

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This is the 2nd book in the Janie Johnson series, and I loved it just as much as the 1st! In this book, Janie/Jenny is being forced to cut off ties with the family and friends she has spent her whole life with to move in with her rightful family. As you can assume, things don't go very well.

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Janie/Jenny does not adjust easily into this new life. I can't wait to read the rest of the series.

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Continuation of the story begun with The Face on the Milk Carton. This is what happens when Janie goes to live with the Spring family. Janie struggles to adapt to her family.