THE FACE ON THE MILK CARTON

Caroline B. Cooney

BY: SHANEDA WADE

CAROLINE B. COONEY•Born 1947 in Geneva, NY, and grew up in Old Greenwich, Connecticut.•She started writing when she 27•Caroline took piano at age seven and played the organ at age thirteen• She loved to read a lot in High School and did very well but in college, she didn't do so well.•"Sitting home with babies, I had to find a way to entertain myself. So I started writing with a pencil, between the children's naps-baby in one arm, notebook in the other." (Caroline B. Cooney)

BOOKS AND AWARDSThe Face on the Milk Carton- American Library Association Recommended Books for the Reluctant Young Adult Reader- International Reading Association Children’s ChoiceDriver’s Ed- American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults- American Library Association Quick Pick for Young Adults- Booklist Editors’ ChoiceTwenty Pagants Later- American Library Association Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult ReadersAmong Friends- A New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age

READ!!!!!READ!!!!READ!!!! This is a great book to read….my most

favorite part in the book is when she hadn’t suppose to have drunk the milk because she was lactose intolerant (just like me ) and after she had drunk it she looked at the missing child photo on the back and realized it was her…..this book shows you how a teenage girl have to find out how she was kidnapped, by who and she wondered how her sweet and loving parents could have done that to her….it takes her through an emotional rollercoaster thru love, hate, and trust…I would recommend a lot of teenagers especially girls to read this book including friends….

EXPOSITION…. PLOT DEVELOPMENT

Main CharactersJanie Johnson- a 15 year old girl who thinks she

is younger than she really is. She’s always wondering why her family is so perfect.

Reeve- Janie’s neighbor and boyfriend who she tells everything to even her deepest darkest secret.

Mr. Johnson- Janie’s father that kidnapped her who was always protective over her.

Mrs. Johnson- Janie’s mother that kidnapped her and wanted her to do mother and daughter things together like bake cakes and go to meetings with other women.

EXPOSITION CONTINUED>>>>>

Janie thought that Mr. & MRS. Johnson was her real parents and she trusted them

CONFLICT Janie finds herself on the back of a milk

carton as a little girl missing from a mall and wanted answers

RISING ACTION Janie reads the newspaper that has the

kidnapping of the little girl on the back of the milk carton, to find the parents which lives in new jersey and her and Revee takes a trip to the house.

CLIMAXJanie mother was dialing number when

Janie asked who was she calling…. Janie mother told Janie that “a mother would need to hear her baby’s voice” and Janie started thinking

FALLING ACTION Janie mother handed her the phone

while it was ringing and Janie started thinking… she had two set of parents and how was she going to manage….

RESOLUTIONA woman answered the phone and Janie

told her that she was her daughter

RESOURCE PAGE Media Center ResourcesThe Face on the Milk Carton By: Caroline B.

Cooney;1990; F COODrivers Ed BY: Caroline B. Cooney;1994; F

COODiamonds in the shadow BY: Caroline B.

Cooney;2007; F COOKidnap; The story or the Lindbergh Case BY:

George Waller;1961; 364.1 WALKidnapped BY: Robert Louis

Stevenson;1948;F STEMissing And murdered Children BY: Margaret

O Hyde;1998;362.74 HYD

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Both sides of Time;1998 The Girl Who Invented Romance;1988 Among Friends;1987

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INTERNET RESOURCES Kidnappings & Missing Persons;

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap; 2/23/11

Kidnapping cases; http://karisable.com/crclasskidn.htm; 2/23/11

Child Abduction: protect children from kidnapping and stranger danger ; http://volunteerguide.org/volunteer/fewhours/child-abduction.htm; 2/24/11

SUMMARY The Face On The Milk Carton is about a girl name

Janie Johnson who thought everything in her life was going good. One day when Janie was at the lunch table with a group of friends, she had drunk some milk that she really wasn’t suppose to because she was Lactose intolerant. After she had finished drinking she turned the carton around only to see herself on the back as a missing person. She tried to tell her friends that the little girl on the back of the milk carton was her, but they all laughed and though she was making up a joke. She realized that no one took her seriously when she said she was kidnapped. She wanted to ask her parents did they really kidnap her, but she thought they would think different of her and she didn’t want her parents

SUMMARY CONTINUED>>> To hate her. But she had so many questions like

did they love really love her? Why would they kidnap her? Who was her real parents? Was they looking for her or even cared she was missing? She soon told one person she knew she could trust, Reeve her neighbor and boyfriend. Everyday after school she would study the picture on the milk carton and soon started remembering thing. She started remembering the long red pigtails in her head that always hung down their back and the dress she said the collar always itched her neck and it was white with tiny polka dots. One day she got feed up and she went to the public library and look up the newspaper that had the kidnapping in it.

SUMMARY CONTINUED>>>> She got the address in which the parents of the

missing girl (who Janie assumed was her real parents) was and read a little about the article. She had told Revee to skip school with her so they could ride some where. He agreed and they headed to New Jersey with no idea what was going to happen when they got there. When they had arrived in New Jersey she found the house she was looking for….later in the story she ends up telling her parents that she knew she was kidnapped….that leads to the phone call to her real parents and they want her back, so they came to get her and she has to leave everything she loved to a family that she knows nothing about.

WORKS CITED PAGE Caroline B Cooney. Web. 28 Feb. 2011.

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Cooney, Caroline B. The Face On the Milk Carton. New York, NY: Laurel-Leaf Books, 1990. Print.

"Cooney, Caroline B." Something About The Author. Vol. 48. Kansas: Dedria Bryfonski, `1987. Print.

Learning About Caroline B. Cooney. N.p., 31 Mar. 1997. Web. 28 Feb. 2011. <http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/professional-development/childlit/cooney5.html>.