She was "mated" to one of the guys there, who got her pregnant with Janie. In the first book, Janie learns (or so she thinks) that her real mother is Hannah, who, as a teenager, joined a cult. But seeing as I wasn't a "young adult" until the early '00s, this once-commonplace concept felt dated, confusing, and not at all "YA." Hannah's Cult Of course, if I'd read Milk Carton when it was actually published in 1990, I probably wouldn't have had an issue with the carton idea. The milk I knew didn't come with images, and besides, wasn't it just easier to put out an Amber Alert or show the kid's face each night on the news? The books explained the concept well enough that I got what it meant, but I just didn't understand why it was done. I don't know about you, but when I read these books, it was the early '00s and the idea of putting a kidnapped child's face on a milk carton made absolutely no sense. The Whole "Face on the Milk Carton" Idea in the First Place When you first read, did you catch any of this stuff? I certainly didn't. The Milk Carton series was filled with definitely-not-YA references. It's heavy stuff, but you'd think Cooney would've toned down the drama for a pre-teen audience, right?
Also known as the Janie Johnson series, Milk Carton and its three sequels followed the life of Janie, a 15-year-old girl who, after discovering her younger self's face on, yes, a milk carton, realizes she'd been kidnapped. Cooney with plenty of material that went way over my 11-year-old head. Before long, I was back to my own demographic - books actually meant for pre-teens like me.Īs it turns out, though, even some of those supposedly "YA" novels had their fair share of adult content - such as The Face on the Milk Carton series, a group of beloved books by Caroline B.
They were novels I might've been better off waiting a few years before tackling: The Lord of the Rings (too confusing), The Red Pony (unbearably boring), The World According to Garp ( terrible at 11, but a masterpiece at 20). Predictably, this presented a problem: Most of those were works not quite meant for my age. I read quickly, though, and soon, I was forced to move onto the books on my parents' shelves. Growing up, I was an avid reader, grabbing all the Judy Blume and Lois Lowry novels I could get my hands on.
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