Caroline B. Cooney

{my thoughts} – This book is wonderful. I loved {the janie johnson series}. So, of course once I saw that she had some books being re-released I had to locate and read. She is a wonderful author.

This book is amazing, wonderful and perfect. It is a stand alone novel. It is about a 15 year-old girl named Alice that is accused of killing her father. She doesn’t know what to do so she goes on the run and becomes a wanted criminal. She made a lot of errors and mistakes and didn’t really use a lot of common sense throughout the book, but honestly if I had felt the way she did I think I would have reacted the same way.

This is a must read book for any fan of Caroline B. Cooney.… (more)

{my thoughts} – I really liked this book. This book was another quick read in my opinion. It picks up where the first lets off. The aftermath of the results to the first book. Janie is forced to go live with her biological family and with that she has to wait 3 months before she can talk to anyone from the family in which she was raised. She struggles with her identity wanting to make both families proud of her, then she wants revenge against her biological family because they took her away from her family and eventually they allow her to go back to her family knowing that they will not be able to keep her as a part of their family. That she has a family and they love her just like they love the children in their family. Janie near then end of the book actually puts forth the effort to do things with the biological family but then in the end turns against them and begs to go back home. I have to admit it is a sad story and for it being the second time I have read it – it made my cry in parts. It’s a nice read and I am sure anyone would enjoy it as a light reading addition.

{reason for reading} - I had read this book back in High School and decided I wanted to re-read it since I discovered there were two more books to the series I hadn’t known about in the beginning.… (more)

No one ever really paid close attention to the faces of the missing children on the milk cartons. But as Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the ordinary little girl with her hair in tight pigtails, wearing a dress with a narrow white collar - a three-year-old who had been kidnapped twelve years before from a shopping mall in New Jersey - she felt overcome with shock. She recognized that little girl - it was she. How could it possibly be true?

Janie can't believe that her loving parents kidnapped her, but as she begins to piece things together, nothing makes sense. Something is terribly wrong. Are Mr. and Mrs. Johnson really Janie's parents? And if not, who is Janie Johnson, and what really happened?… (more)

{my thoughts} - This book summed up the entire series in a sense. I wasn’t pleased with the different point of views in which it had been written. It had switched from Janie, Reeve and Brian throughout the book which was more then annoying in my honest opinion. I was actually rather surprised at what she had found but even more surprised that she and Reeve had gotten back together after the last book. I also couldn’t believe how well both families were getting along that they allowed their non-kidnapped children the right to spend as much time as they wanted at the Johnson’s house. If I were the Springs I would never be able to allow the kidnappers by proxy anywhere’s near the children I had been able to raise. It just seems wrong to me and there Brian was spending the whole summer at the Johnson’s I don’t get how the Spring’s went from overprotective to just about not caring at all. But it is a book and it looks like it was meant to end happily ever after and sometimes happily ever afters are far to forced for them to make any real sense.

{reason for reading} - I wanted to complete the series. It wasn’t as good as the other books but was worth getting to know the conclusion of the storyline.… (more)