![]() ![]() When her children were young, Caroline started writing books for young people - with remarkable results. I started writing then and never stopped!" "He used to rip off covers from The New Yorker and pass them around and make us write a short story on whichever cover we got. Johnson really her parents? And if not, who is Janie Johnson, and what really happened?Ĭaroline Cooney knew in sixth grade that she wanted to be a writer when "the best teacher I ever had in my life" made writing her main focus. Janie can't believe that her loving parents kidnapped her, but as she begins to piece things together, nothing makes sense. She recognized that little girl-it was she. 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. No one ever really paid close attention to the faces of the missing children on the milk cartons. Mystery and suspense blend seamlessly with issues of family, friendship, and love to offer an emotionally evocative thrill ride of a read. ![]() In the vein of psychological thrillers like We Were Liars, Girl on the Train, and Beware That Girl, bestselling author Caroline Cooney's JANIE series delivers on every level. ![]()
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