Whatever Happened to Janie?
By: Caroline B. Cooney
Pgs:199

"Whatever Happened to Janie?" is the exciting sequal to the notoriouse "The Face on the Milk Carton". Just a quick recap of the prevoiuse story, 15 year old Janie Johnson discovers that at the age of 3, she had been kidnapped from her real family and since then had lived with a friendly couple who didnt even know she had been kindnapped. Sounds confusing? Well dont worry cuz the book explains it way better. But now that you have a little background on what this is all about, i can procede to explaining the story. After Janie finds out about her kidnapping, she also found her real parents. Janie knows if she doesnt contact them, she'd never be able to live it down, so she gives them a call and suddenly, she has a new identity, a new school, and a new family. Janie Johnson was to dissapear and turn into Jennie Spring. The struggle that Janie had to go through was very heartouching and sad. How could she just forget about the parents she had known all her life? But then again, how could she just abandon the parents that had been searching for her ever since she had dissapeared at 3.

This was a really great book, though the storyline was not as interesting as "The Face on the Milk Carton". The concept was basically just finding who her true family was. The story had an open ending, becuase although she chose to go back to her "fake" family, it did not seem like a suitable mood to end a story. Of course, the next boook in the seriese, "The Voice on the Radio" opens up new possibilities. Overall, I'd reccomend this series to any teen interested in romance and drama. I'd rate it 3.5/5

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