The Face On The Milk Carton Summary

In the book The Face on The Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney, the main character is Janie Johnson, a 15 year-old girl, that is lactose intolerant, has red, curly hair and lives in Connecticut, New York. After one day of school, she begins to question who her real parents are because she thinks that she saw herself on a missing child poster. With that in mind, this story would fit into the mystery, fiction, and young adult fiction genre. On this particular part of the book, the rising conflict makes it one of the most hooking parts of the book. During lunch, Janie would normally drink some sort of juice (since she’s lactose intolerant), but today she was feeling adventurous and decides to drink milk. On the bottom of the milk carton, the

Later that day she goes over to her friends house Reeve (neighbor), and helps him rake leaves. She has always liked him, and they have always been close. He then leans in and kisses her out of nowhere. After this, he runs off inside and leaves her outside in the pile of leaves. She then sleeps everything off and wakes up the next morning. She then has the idea to skip school. So, Janie and Reeve decide to skip school and drive to New Jersey. New Jersey was where she was taken/kidnapped from the mall. She then realizes that she must have been kidnapped from another family, because no one in her family (her mom or grandparents) has that kind of red hair. So she looks up the last name that she had on the missing child poster. She then finds out who her real family is and tries to see them in New Jersey, but she has mixed feelings again. One side of her is saying that they haven’t seen their baby in close to 12 years and need to see her. The other half of her is thinking, they probably moved on and besides I already have grown a bond with my “grandparents.” Having those mixed thoughts, she decides that she is going to write a letter to her real “family.” She writes the letter and then loses it.And as if it wasn’t bad enough, she lost it at school. So on top of the fact that someone might just go mail it for her, there was also a possibility for her business to be spread across the school