Kerry- the one about the girl who stays home when all her classmates go to college? I also love that one. I always get a little nervous before rereading a Cooney, for fear that the girls are all idiots, but so far, the books have mostly withstood the test of time. Other Sarah (same Sarah?)- I know, Cooney heroines were awesome. All I could find was other people asking why it had been banned, cause they had a report due in an hour and they couldn’t find any records of why the book had been banned. Sarah- despite my best efforts with Google, I could never figure out why TFOTMC was banned. I never got pulled down into leaves, but I am waiting… it will happen. Shaina- I have endless amounts of love for this book, especially the teen romance parts.
As Reeve would point out, you always remember your first… Caroline B Cooney novel.
None get to me quite like the Face on the Milk Carton. Though I am now an adult, I still read and reread her books. This was not necessarily a successful endeavor, but I am still glad I got to spend my teen years with these books. I based my life on these books, back in the day, living more of my preteen and teen years acting as a Cooney heroine would. All the books feature dreamy, contemplative heroines caught in melodramatic situations. I grew up on her books- Camp Boy-Meets-Girl, Family Reunion, the Time series, Tune in Anytime, and The Girl Who Invented Romance. Plus, it reminds young people that joining a cult is awesome, because your parents totally won’t turn you in to the police.Ĭooney’s books were the first step for me to reading romance novels. Reeve is constantly thinking about sex, though in that middle-aged-woman-writing-this way- he wants to run his hands though Janie’s ‘serious’ red hair and put his body next to hers, rather than search for her real parents. I have loved this book for more than a decade, now, and I have never exactly been able to ascertain why this book gets banned. Who is Hannah, the mysterious child her parents have never spoke of? Why does the milk carton picture of “Jennie Springs†look like her? Why do the Springs have that same red hair? How can she destroy her life by confronting her parents with the truth? Will her best friend, Sarah-Charlotte, ever stop talking? Will Janie have sex with hot neighbor Reeve? Will there be three sequels, the last which will completely contradict the first three? She starts investigating, and discovering that nothing adds up. The Face on the Milk Carton tells the story of a teenager, Janie Johnson, who looks down at her milk carton at lunch one day and realizes that the missing- child picture on it is her own. Publication Info: Delacorte Books for Young Readers April 13, 1996
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