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THE FACE ON THE MILK CARTON Caroline B. Cooney Hardcover | Delacorte Books for Young Readers | April 1996 | $15.95 | 0-385-32328-X | Ages 10 up Paperback | Laurel Leaf | April 1991 | $5.99 | 0-440-22065-3 | Ages 10 up

Fifteen-year-old Janie Johnson has a great life—two loving parents who support her, a cute next-door neighbor, wonderful friends and hopefully, a soon-to-be boyfriend. When Janie is at lunch one day with her usual group, she is shocked when she looks at her friend’s milk carton and sees her own picture there as a kidnapping victim. Immediately, she begins to question just who she is. Did her “parents” kidnap her? Is she really the three-year-old on the carton known as Jennie Spring? Janie finally makes it home and goes up into the attic to search for some clue to her past. When she comes across a polka-dotted dress just like the little girl on the milk carton, she knows her parents have some serious explaining to do. The problem is, she’s not sure she wants to hear their explanation.

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Prepared by Brenda Day, Library Media Specialist, Crowley Middle School, Crowley, Texas

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