ajcousins 's review for:

The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney

3.0

---

I must have borrowed this from one of my cousins' kids while we were on vacation this summer, but I don't remember who had it. In any case, it's a book that young adults will almost certainly love, even if it's dated enough now by the fact that no one buys milk in cartons, nor are there pictures of missing children on milk containers period. But every kid has felt alienated from their family at one point, and has probably wondered what their life would be like if they really belonged with a different family. The narrator of this book isn't sure if she's losing her mind or if she really was kidnapped as a young child to be raised by her current parents. Relatively gripping read for teen lit, although with a little too much time spent on whether or not she is going/ought to have sex with her boyfriend. I've got nothing at all against sex in books, even teen books if it's handled well, but it honestly distracted me from the story here. In any case, I kind of wish my cousin's kid had had the sequel too, because I still don't know how it all turned out... :)