Student Book Review:


Face on the Milk Carton, The


by: Caroline B. Cooney


Review done by:

Robin Friedman
Grade 6
Van Antwerp Middle School
Niskayuna, NY

The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney was an exciting tale.
Janie, the main character in the book, was chatting with her friends and looking at the mysterious missing people on the milk carton , when she got a look at the face and the dress of the person who was missing. It was like she froze in time. She started having memories of people she didn't know at all. In her memories she was the girl on the milk carton. She saw that she was only a little girl and that there was a woman whom she kept walking up to. By then she was tired of having memories and knew that there was something going on, but she didn't know what. So she searched through the attic and found a box that had the name "Hannah" on it. That night she asked her parents who Hannah was,and her parents revealed a story that was horrifying. She learned that her adoptive parents were her grandparents and that they were the mother and father of Hannah. Hannah had joined a group that believed in not eating and begging on the streets. Hannah had felt that she had too many advantages in her life and that she shouldn't have them. So, she joined this club. When Hannah had a child she finally learned that she did not have a good life so she sent the child to her grandparents and her grandparents moved far away. They never saw Hannah again.
But they did have Janie to take care of. So, Janie and her boyfriend drove to New Jersey to find Janie's mother. There was only one name recorded of her mother's last name when Janie got to the apartment she saw her brothers and sisters. But she did not see her mother. If you want to know if Janie finds her mother then you'll have to read the book.

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