What Janie Found | Caroline B. Cooney | The last mystery that concluded it all

What Janie Found | Caroline B. Cooney | Surprise

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What Janie Found

	What Janie Found Caroline B. Cooney Laurel Leaf, 2002 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 80 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Janie?s two families appear to have made peace. Life seems almost normal. She?s even decided to speak to her former boyfriend, Reeve, again. But then Janie?s Connecticut father suffers a sudden stroke, and this tragedy leaves her mother reeling. Janie must step in to manage family finances and to support her mother emotionally.

While handling her father?s business matters, Janie discovers the one undeniable fact that could destroy both of her beloved families. And she alone must decide what to do.

The last mystery that concluded it all

February 25, 2007 Diana
TITLE: What Janie Found
AUTHER: Caroline B. Cooney
ISBN: 0-38532611-4
TITLE OF REVIEW: The Last Mystery that concluded it all

Janie was absolutely speechless when she stumbled upon and read what was in a manila file folder. You see, her father was in the hospital and Janie was responsible for making sure that all the bills and things were paid on time. While looking for the bills, Janie found a folder about Hannah, Janie's kidnapper of last year. She has no idea her father was still in touch with Hannah Javensen. Hannah was Janie's father's real daughter. This fictional story mainly takes place in Colorado where her biological brother Steven lives while going to college although Janie lives in Connecticut.

I thought this was an excellent and exciting book. I felt this about the story because if was a little bit of a mystery but not gory or scary. I would recommend this story to any female middle school students. I enjoyed the exciting storyline with a mysterious twist and so would they. Not only do I think this because I am a girl in middle school but the story itself is written about a girl, her problems and how she handles them. A connection that I could make to the story is that a girl that lived in the same area as me was kidnapped but just like Janie Johnson was brought back to her family. As far as the style of the writing goes, I personally like stories where the main character is telling the story. I think that when a main character is telling their story it is more personal. The main surprise that held my interest the most was when Janie decided to go to Colorado and meet face to face with her kidnapper.

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Final book to find all truth and you wouldnt want to put the book down.

H.J.

Janie Johnson or Jennie Springs, has just discovered she was kidnapped by a woman named Hannah Javenson and given to her parents Miranda and Frank Javenson. They however, thought Janie was Hannah's child and agreed to protect her by raising the child when she fled west. Frank knew the truth about Janie, for he did the right thing and changed her name from Jennie to Janie and also changed there families last name from Javenson to Johnson to keep them safe. With all of these events happening, Janie's father Frank suffers a stroke and is hospitalized and is even put in intensive care for a little while also. When this happens Janie's mom tells her to go through her fathers paid bills cabinet and go through the file listed H.J. This file contained everything about Hannah Javenson. Opening this file and finding out her father had been supporting her kidnapper by giving her a check every month caused Janie to break down into tears in front of her brother, Brian, and her ex boy friend Reeve. Soon after she has a plan to find Hannah, for it just so happens she lives in Boulder, Colorado the exact place her brother Stephen goes to College. Janie's plan was to mail the check and stalk the post office until she came to retrieve her money and maybe she get to talk to Hannah and ask her all the questions running through her mind. Once in Colorado things don't go as planned and Reeve and Brian come up with the brilliant idea to leave her a note saying this is it you are now out of my life forever by leaving her all the rest of her ransom money, to disconnect her from the Johnson's for all the trouble she has caused. It turns out that Janie has now found her family, the right thing to do, and her way home. This novel was very mysterious a different suspense scene every page I turned, it made you want to continue reading until you knew it all.

Janie Johnson even after finding out who her real parents were, decided to stay with her criminal parents. After returning to her home in New Jersey, Janie felt uncomfortable like she was living with a bunch of strangers. Stephen felt she was a snobby, spoiled brat and the way she left just as quick as she came made his point correct. Janie gave them no chance even though she knew they loved her a lot when they barely knew her for more than a couple days. Janie also kept her kidnapped name Janie Johnson instead of true birth name Jennie Springs. To her brother Stephen that goes to show she really doesn't care to know what her real family is like.

Even when Janie knew Hannah kidnapped her she still felt the need to meet her to see how she appeared other than, "last seen flying west." After reading those intriguing paid bills files she still wanted to meet the woman who caused this chaos in her life. Janie felt the need to know the reason why she did it and why did she pick her. But in other senses, Janie wanted to shove her off a cliff to make her feel how much trauma her and both the Johnson and Spring family have gone through between the FBI to the court hearings.

Reeve tried his best to keep from hurting Janie or causing her any more grief than she has been through already. When Brian kept asking about the secret, H.J. file Reeve kept quiet and occupied Brian in order to take the stress off of Janie. When really he also wanted to know what was making Janie look so intense and full of questions. Also when Janie's dad was put into intensive care he offered to go with her to keep her company driving to the hospital considering the condition she was in, even after she said she would go solo. To get her mind off of the file he took her on a date or in his case a race to see him work at the pit stop and watch his car race. She enjoyed it and the race seemed to take her mind off of Hannah for the time being, and focus on the race and Reeve sweating as he changed tires.

What Janie Found, is a very suspenseful novel packed with mind tricks, character thoughts and emotions, and even a mere fright. Janie Johnson, a kidnapette, as Kathlene called her was put through a lot of trauma, from her two families, to the H.J. file, and to her father's stroke. She made the decision to try to find Hannah and not only give her the usual monthly check but also to ask her a few questions pertaining to her kidnapping. But Brian and Reeve discover a new plan to give Hannah the rest of her money and tell her that she is now excluded from there lives forever. Janie decides that she found the right thing to do, found her family, and her way home too.

T. BROWN

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Not satisfied

Janie realizes that Frank had been financially supporting Hannah Javensen (H.J.), his long-lost daughter and Janie's kidnapper. Janie is furious and uses a visit to her brother Stephen Spring as an excuse to see Hannah and confront her. At the end of the book, Janie finds peace with her older brother. She forgives Reeve and falls for him again, and they (supposedly) get back together at the end of the book. However, Janie never finds Hannah.

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