thelizabeth 's review for:

The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney

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This book was passed around like contraband at my Catholic middle school. Every girl in my class read it. Someone brave had gotten it out of the library, I think, and then we passed that library copy from person to person so we could all read it without having to go get it ourselves. I think we thought it was dirty? Does it even have dirty parts? I don't even remember them! I remember hiding it under my bed when my mom came in the room. Probably it was more fun to imagine our moms disapproving, and to read it in secret, than to just get your own copy like a normal person.

Being normal: a tall order for 13-year-olds, anyway.

I must have liked it. Who wouldn't like it, reading it that way?