As readers progress, however, they find themselves less invested in what seemed like a promising story of suspense and more ensnarled by kitschy lunch table dialogue and creepy romances with the older boy next door. Cooney’s persistent cliffhanger style keeps you greedily flipping the page chapter after chapter, anxious to resolve the mystery or discover a new twist.
Cooney’s The Face on the Milk Carton deserves some credit: twenty years after its publication, audiences continue to be captivated by heroine Janie Johnson when she discovers her face on a missing child advertisement. Nathalia says: “About as Tasteful as Sour Milk” Nathalia Oliveira and Ali DeChancie of the CMWR each wrote a review of the book, partly as a way to analyze some of the author’s literary choices from opposing perspectives, and partly as a way to settle our differences with the book and just become casual acquaintances. The students enjoyed the book and our discussions were interesting, but the CMWR staff was a bit less… enthusiastic in our reviews.
Over the DePaul summer term, the CMWR held a weekly Book Club in collaboration with the English Language Academy, and our selection was the teen-fiction thriller The Face on the Milk Carton, the first installment of a four-part series and the subsequent inspiration for a TV-movie adaptation.
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