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finesilkflower 's review for:
The Face on the Milk Carton
by Caroline B. Cooney
Clever premise that's a bit "out there" but a high level of attention has been paid to making it emotionally grounded. Cooney even takes care to mention that the moral panic about stranger danger kidnaping is largely made up, a hard thing to do in a book whose premise is about just such an unlikely event!
I avoided this book when I was the right age for it because of the branding that made it look like a horror novel, but it's really actually pretty low-key mystery where most of the action is going to school, talking to friends, being freaked out, etc. Not that it isn't its own kind of horror when you think maybe your parents have a Hidden Life and you were kidnapped for Possibly Nefarious Purposes, but it's definitely not, like, gory or ghosty anything.
This is also definitely an influence for one of my favorite Baby-sitters Club books, Claudia and the Great Search, down to the "library microfiche" scene.
I avoided this book when I was the right age for it because of the branding that made it look like a horror novel, but it's really actually pretty low-key mystery where most of the action is going to school, talking to friends, being freaked out, etc. Not that it isn't its own kind of horror when you think maybe your parents have a Hidden Life and you were kidnapped for Possibly Nefarious Purposes, but it's definitely not, like, gory or ghosty anything.
This is also definitely an influence for one of my favorite Baby-sitters Club books, Claudia and the Great Search, down to the "library microfiche" scene.