A book summary on the book The face on the milk carton and also the cover of the book?

In short, Janie is a young girl who goes to school one day and the face of the young girl on the missing children milk carton picture is herself as a 3 year old. She recognizes herself, and is in shock, and has to confront her parents about it. They tell her that in actuality she is not their daughter but their granddaughter, or at least that's what they thought. It turns out that their wayward junkie daughter had kidnapped Janie when she was 3 and brought her to her parents, but they thought she was just bringing them her kid that she could no longer take care of. She goes on a search for her real parents with her boyfriend, and finds them. They never stopped believing she would come home, but since she doesn't remember them, it's really awkward for the whole family, since the other children have grown up around the myth of Janie. Two of the kids were older and blamed themselves for her disappearance, because they told their mom they'd watch her in the store and then ran away in an attempt to scare her; the other two kids, twins, were born after she was kidnapped and have had to deal with their parents' overprotectiveness. It deals a lot with how Janie learns to cope with her "new" family, and with who she really is.





There are two sequels to this book (actually, I think there is a third one, but I never read it) called Whatever Happened to Janie? and The Voice on the Radio. They are very good books.





There is also a made-for-television movie based on the first two books, called The Face on the Milk Carton, starring Tracey Gold (of Growing Pains fame!).

A book summary on the book The face on the milk carton and also the cover of the book?
A good place to start with any book and requests like this is Amazon.





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Reply:The book carton has a school milk carton on it with the face of a missing girl. Years ago it was common to do this in public schools to help locate abducted children. This practice was stopped because of the fear it created among children. From this you should be able to deduce what the book is about.