The Face on the Milk Carton
Janie Johnson is in high school. She's getting along okay until she decides to have some milk from a milk carton.
It's the kind of carton that has a picture of a missing child, and Janie's face is on it.
vWhat follows is a long attempt by Janie to come to terms with this. She's torn between the love for the people recognizes as her parents, and the possibility that she may have been stolen from her real parents. The more she finds out, the more she learns that it is very likely that she was abducted.
Her mental state starts to fall apart and other people notice. Her parents tell her one story, and she wants to believe it's true, but she also blames herself for going along (as a young child) with a stranger.
The location of the real parents becomes known, and the question remains whether or not to contact them.
It's a fairly good book, but I do wonder somewhat about Janie's unalterable devotion to the parents she is living with, even once she becomes confronted with pretty strong proof that they are not her real parents and actually committed a crime by abducting her. I would tend to think she would become angry at them and suspicious of them, and actually end up informing the police about what she has found rather than staying absolutely devoted to the two.
Still, people will vary in their reactions, and she has lived with her present 'parents' far longer than she lived with her real ones.
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