summary
Janie goes to school and during lunch she grabs her friend’s milk carton and sees this girl on the back who she thinks of it’s her. She tells her friends who don’t believe her and she keeps the carton in a book and for weeks she is wondering if it’s her. After a while she goes to the attic and finds a box which has the name Hannah on it. She can’t believe that her parents kidnapped her but it is a fact that they don’t have any photos of her as a baby. The girl on the back of the carton was missing since she was three. Janie also has strange daymares with memories from long ago she doesn’t recognize.
So she decides to ask her parents about the box on the attic and the never taken child photos.
They explain that they are not her parents but her grandparents and that Hannah was their only daughter. Hannah joined a cult which made it impossible for her parents to see her again. They only wrote letters. In the cult Hannah had to marry a guy and apparently had a child because one day when she came home she carried a child with her. The cult tried to trace them so they had to move and change jobs and names. Their real name wasn’t Johnson but Javensen. Hannah went back to the cult but left the child with her parents. They raised her up thinking it was their grandchild.
The next day when Janie goes to school Reeve offers her a ride.
Instead of going to school she and Reeve go to New Jersey the place where the girl Jennie Spring went missing according to the milk carton. They look the name Spring up in the telephone directory and drive to the address. There Janie sees a family with children who all have red hair like her. She gets the shivers and Reeve and Janie drive back home. They got home late and their parents were angry. Reeve decides that this can’t go on any longer and tells his sister Lizzy about it. She tells Janie that her parents must know about this. Lizzy’s theory is that Hannah must have needed some company on the way home from the cult and just took Janie with her. They tell her parents and Janie calls the Springs telling them she’s the missing daughter.
Main characters
Janie Johnson
Janie is a 15 year old girl who thinks her life is a bit boring. She doesn’t like her name and always writes down Jayyne Johnstone . she feels different compared to her friends. Because she isn’t frequently asked on a date and feels younger.
Ms Johnson
Janies mother, who does a lot of charity work and is a good mother.
The book doesn’t tell much about her character.
Mr. Johnson
Janies father, who is the typical overprotective dad afraid of losing his little girl.
Reeve
Reeve is Janies boyfriend in the end of the book. He lives nextdoor.
explanation of the title
When people are missing in the USA their face can be printed on a milkcarton.
When and where
the story plays in Connecticut. When I don’t know.
Point of view
The story is Janies point of view.
Opinion
The book was very long-winding and the identity crisis of Janie is very dull. She constantly changes her name by adding y’s and t’s. "I am not Janie Johnson nor Jayyne Jonhstone nor Jane Javensen nor Jennie Spring". I didn’t really like the story.
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