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meganfinan 's review for:
The Face on the Milk Carton
by Caroline B. Cooney
This book is about a girl named Janie who has the perfect life; supportive friends and caring, if slightly annoying, parents. One day, Janie looks on the back of a milk carton during her lunch period. There are always pictures of kids who are kidnapped, and that day, there was a picture of Janie on the back. Janie started having daymares about her before the picture on the milk carton was taken. Later on in the book, Janie gets the truth from her parents. Janie is so disturbed by the truth, she decides to skip school with her boyfriend, Reeve. This made me want to throw my book across the room because it irritated me on so many levels. It irritated me that a student like Janie wants to skip school. Before they left, Reeve asked Janie, ““You serious? Janie of the sweet, obedient personality wants to cut class?”” (Cooney 98). It also irritated me that Reeve went along with the idea so easily, and drove her to New Jersey. Reeve just got on the honor role for the first time, and then he decides to ruin it just because his girlfriend asked. Anyone can relate to wanting to skip school, but actually going through with it, irritates me to no end.