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justjuju 's review for:
The Face on the Milk Carton
by Caroline B. Cooney
After rereading “I Know What You Did Last Summer” in June, it was pretty easy to settle on “The Face on the Milk Carton” as my August reread. If Lois Duncan got me into horror, Caroline B. Cooney made me fall in love with mysteries. I can remember getting the first book in this series from a Scholastic Book Order (loved those) and devouring the next two books of the series. (Supposedly there’s a fourth which I never knew existed until now.) I loved this. I loved revisiting this. I loved that the publisher didn’t force Cooney into updating the book for a new generation. There were typewriters and cassettes. The setting was the same...which makes me incredibly happy. Otherwise, how would one explain why Janie didn’t just hop online and Google herself? The only way this concept works is within the time frame it was written. This book is dear to my heart and I’m glad that I checked in with Janie all these years later...and may just have to reread the rest of the series now.