CHILDREN'S
Released: Jan. 8, 2013
"Fans who have wondered whether Reeve and Janie's love endures and whether the kidnapper is caught will want this final piece of the puzzle. (Fiction. 12-17)"
Over two decades after the Janie series began with
The Face on the Milk Carton (1990), Cooney concludes the thriller-romance saga of kidnapped Janie Johnson.
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ADULT
Released: Jan. 1, 2000
"Readers may appreciate her wisdom, but as Hannah remains a faceless, voiceless enigma, there is no closure to the central mystery of the four- book drama. (Fiction. 11-13)"
Billed as the conclusion to the saga that began with The Face on the Milk Carton (1990), this soapy drama ends with some wounds healed, but the characters and plot lines suspended in thin Rocky Mountain air.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 1, 1996
"Scenes of newfound understanding between Janie and her birth family keep the story afloat—just barely—but despite the flaws, Janie's fans will love it. (Author tour) (Fiction. 12+)"
Janie, who was kidnapped from her birth parents at age three and ended up with the Johnson family in Cooney's The Face on the Milk Carton (1990) and Whatever Happened to Janie? (1993), is finally coming to terms with her past.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: June 1, 1993
"Cooney avoids feel-good answers and wrestles with the issues; readers will be fascinated by the debate and saddened by the realization that—in this case—a happy ending is all but an impossibility. (Fiction. 11+)"
In The Face on the Milk Carton (1990), Janie discovered that she was kidnapped as a three-year-old and adopted by the Johnsons, who believed her to be the child of their unstable daughter Hannah.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: March 1, 1990
"Nevertheless, a real page-turner."
In a novel that never quite lives up to its gripping premise, a high-school student discovers that her much-loved parents may in fact be her kidnappers.
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