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    Whatever Happened to Janie?

    Part of The Face on the Milk Carton Series

    Author Caroline B. Cooney
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    RH Childrens Books | Laurel Leaf
    On sale Jul 01, 2009 | 224 Pages | 9780307425201
    Grade 7 & Up
    Reading Level: Lexile 720L | Fountas & Pinnell Y
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    No one ever paid attention to the faces of missing children on milk cartons. But as Janie  Johnson glanced at the face of the little girl who had been taken twelve years ago, she recognized that little girl--it was herself.

    The mystery of the kidnapping is unraveled, but the nightmare is not over. The Spring family wants justice, but who is to blame? It's difficult to figure out what's best for everyone.

    Janie Johnson or Jennie Spring? There's enough love for everyone, but how can the two separate families live happily ever after?
    © Jane Feldman
    Caroline B. Cooney is the author of Family Reunion; Goddess of Yesterday (an ALA Notable Children’s Book); The Ransom of Mercy Carter; Tune in Anytime; Burning Up; The Face on the Milk Carton (an IRA-CBC Children’s Choice Book) and its companions, Whatever Happened to Janie? and The Voice on the Radio (each of them an ALA Best Book for Young Adults), as well as What Janie Found; What Child Is This? (an ALA Best Book for Young Adults); Driver’s Ed (an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and a Booklist Editors’ Choice); Among Friends; Twenty Pageants Later; and the Time Travel Quartet. She lives in Westbrook, Connecticut. View titles by Caroline B. Cooney
    • WINNER | 1994
      ALA Best Books for Young Adults
    • WINNER | 1993
      Washington Evergreen Young Adult Book Award
    • WINNER | 1992
      Iowa Teen Book Award

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    No one ever paid attention to the faces of missing children on milk cartons. But as Janie  Johnson glanced at the face of the little girl who had been taken twelve years ago, she recognized that little girl--it was herself.

    The mystery of the kidnapping is unraveled, but the nightmare is not over. The Spring family wants justice, but who is to blame? It's difficult to figure out what's best for everyone.

    Janie Johnson or Jennie Spring? There's enough love for everyone, but how can the two separate families live happily ever after?

    Author

    © Jane Feldman
    Caroline B. Cooney is the author of Family Reunion; Goddess of Yesterday (an ALA Notable Children’s Book); The Ransom of Mercy Carter; Tune in Anytime; Burning Up; The Face on the Milk Carton (an IRA-CBC Children’s Choice Book) and its companions, Whatever Happened to Janie? and The Voice on the Radio (each of them an ALA Best Book for Young Adults), as well as What Janie Found; What Child Is This? (an ALA Best Book for Young Adults); Driver’s Ed (an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and a Booklist Editors’ Choice); Among Friends; Twenty Pageants Later; and the Time Travel Quartet. She lives in Westbrook, Connecticut. View titles by Caroline B. Cooney

    Awards

    • WINNER | 1994
      ALA Best Books for Young Adults
    • WINNER | 1993
      Washington Evergreen Young Adult Book Award
    • WINNER | 1992
      Iowa Teen Book Award

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