![]() ![]() 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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