Every young adult can remember the times when they were younger and wanted to run away from home, some may still be in a stage where they think about what it would be like to have been adopted, while still others live in the reality of having multiple sets of parents and families. This tantalizing novel was written in 1990 but still has adolescents today being pulled in by its’ pages. She recognizes her face on the back of a milk carton as a kidnapped victim and spends the remainder of the novel trying to place her real history and who she really is. The book follows a young girl named Janie Johnson as she learns that the people she has called mom and dad all her life are not really her parents. The Face on the Milk Carton is a young adolescent fiction novel written by Caroline B. While we may not see faces on milk cartons anymore we all have seen the pictures and fliers for missing children all over the news, newspapers and of course grocery stores such as Wal-Mart.
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