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The Voice on the Radio

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In the book "The Face on the Milk Carton" JanieJohnson discovers her true identity. Janie had been kidnapped at age three. In the book "Whatever Happened to Janie",Janie goes to live with her real family. Janie acts like a real brat. At the end of this book Janie goes back to live with her "fake" parents. Through out this whole mess Janie has a boyfriend named Reeve. Reeve is basically the only person Janie trusts. In the book "The Voice on the Radio" the saga continues. Reeve moves to Boston to attend college, leaving Janie sad. Janie and Reeve continue their relationship by phone and e-mail. Reeve starts working on the college radio station, he had always dreamed of being a radio talk show host. When Reeve does his first show he runs out of things to say after the first six minutes. Reeve is really nervest and doesn't know what to say so he starts telling Janie's story. Everybody loved his show. Reeve knew that he shouldn't have started telling Janie's story on live radio. Reeve continued to say stories about Janie's tragedy. Reeve intended to stop, but everybody at his college loved his show and they were hookedon it.Janie ofcourse didn't know all of this was happening. While of this was happenning Janie was getting closer to her real family. Janie's sister, Jodie invited Janie to go with her to Boston for some college interviews. Janie was thrilled ,she could surprise Reeve with a visit. Janie, Jodie , and their younger brother Brian stayed at a hotel overnigth. Janie decide to tune in Reeve's radiostation. That's when Janie heard Reeve tell part of her story. Janie was shocked. Brian calls the radio station and tells Reevethat they know what he's doing. If you want to know how the end of this book I suggest you read it. I really liked this book, it was really interesting. I think it's better if you read "The Face on the Milk Carton" and "Whatever Happened to Janie" befor reading this book. You'll understand it better. I gave this story four stars because in my opinion the two books before this one were better. They were more interesting and exciting.

"The Voice on the Radio" picks up one year after "Whatever Happened to Janie?" ended. Janie Johnson (aka Jennie Spring) is now a junior in high school (still in Connecticut), and Reeve Shields, her boyfriend, is a freshman at Hills College in Boston, Massachusetts. He's also the main character in this book.

The book starts out on Reeve's first day of hosting a one-hour talk program on the college campus radio, WSCK. He's extremely nervous and has no material to speak of--until he flashes on his girlfriend's traumatic past. For an hour, Reeve retells Janie's discovery of the missing children's ad on the side of the milk carton, realizing it was a picture of herself, and that she had been kidnapped over twelve years ago. From then on, Reeve has an immediate and devoted audience. They want to know everything that happened to Janie, but how far will Reeve go to maintain his popularity and status?

Meanwhile, Jodie Spring (Janie's biological older sister) is planning a weekend trip to Boston to scout-out potential colleges. She invites Janie and Brian (one of their younger twin brothers) along for the ride, but all three get more than they bargained for when they tune in to Reeve's secretive radio show. Needless to say, they're all shocked and horrified by what he's done. How could he do this to them, especially Janie? More importantly, how can they forgive him for exposing their family's secret so publicly? And what about that mysterious caller who claimed to be Hannah Javensen, Janie's kidnapper?

Just as gripping as the previous two books in this series ("The Face on the Milk Carton" and "Whatever Happened to Janie?"), "The Voice on the Radio" definitely doesn't disappoint. It leaves you wanting more, and, thankfully, there is another book after this one: "What Janie Found". This series could go on and on forever, and I would still be reading every book too. They're very addictive.

While this series is geared toward teen girls, I would still recommend it to anyone interested. It's well worth your time if you like true-to-life stories.

This book is the third in the series The Face on the Milk Carton. The book the Voice on the Radio is a suspenseful story about a red-headed girl named Janie. Janie is a dizzy, scared girl that is having her life rolled out with one to many unexpected twists. Janie has a boyfriend, Reeve, which is away at collage and ends up telling her story on air.
The book the Voice on the Radio is a breath taking dramatic book. This wasn't my favorite book in the series, but it was still amazing. Even though it wasn't my favorite, it is one of those books that you never put down. Caroline B. Cooney always leaves me on the edge of my chair wanting more. If you read the first and the second book, the third is a definite read as long as you're ready for a thrill. She is an awesome mystery writer, and when I think I have it all uncovered, something else rolls out.

After having read the two books leading up to The Voice on the Radio, The Face on the Milk Carton and Whatever Happened to Janie, I am still eager for more of Caroline B. Cooney's Janie Series! Each book is better than the one before! As "Voice of Youth Advocates" says Voice on the Radio is "a real page-turner" the book lives up to its multi-genre quality of mystery, romance, and drama including many climaxes in the story. These numerous moments of intesity get my heart pounding and my eyes opened wide. Just when you think poor Janie Johnson has found time to breathe, betrayal from a loved one catches her off-gaurd. Fortunately, Janie Johnson or "Jennie Spring" has two loving families to help her through it all, but how much can her families take? Sooner or later Janie will have no where to run to or a place to hide...

Have you ever been betrayed by your best friend or boyfriend and felt like you could never forgive them? Well, this book is all about how Janie's boyfriend went to college to become a DJ for a radio station.
As time went on Janie's boyfriend started something that would make Janie very mad if she found out what exactly he was doing. He kept up the same thing and never thought she would figure it out, until she did.
I liked this book because it kept you on the edge of your seat most of the time and it gives good detail about everything. This book is very interesting and will make you want to read the rest of the book in the series!

I picked this up at the library on a whim. It is nicely written, and i like the fact that conflicting emotions are well-explained. For example, how Janey and her sister Jody interact, the feelings that Jody has for Janey, how she loves her and hates her at the same time, how understanding Brian and Jody are of their mother's fears and weariness, and how at the same time are struggling with their own sense of independence, how Reeve feels torn between loyalty and his drive for success...All these topics are great fodder for a young mind. A good read, over all.

i really loved this book, in fact, i though that it was the best in the entire series, even though all of them were really great. through the face on the milk carton and whatever happened to janie, i always wanted janie to be able to love both her families, and i think this book began to resolve that. this book showed the characters so clearly, janie and her families still trying to recover from the kidnapping, but beginning to heal, and reeve, forgetting that everyone could hear his voice, and that he was telling things to the world that had been told to him in confidence. even though it was a horrible thing to do, caroline b. cooney still wrote it so that you could understand why he did it, the same way that she showed why janie was so horrible to her biological family. i now really want to read what janie found.

This book is really mostly about Reeve and Janie. And how Reeve sold her on air. I never thought that Reeve would be so soft, yet un trustworthy. Reeve thought of it like he had raped Janie on the Radio. It's not as suspencful as the first and second book, but it is, still a page turner. It just makes you want to know what will happen to Reeve, and what Janie will do to him. :)

I think that the Voice on the Radio was very interesting. It was missing the "umf" that really graps the reader leaving them wanting them to read more. It was somewhat bland and I was disappointed about Cooney's writing performance comared to that of The Face on the Milk Carton and Whatever Happened to Janie. The book expressed just the facts and was "feeelingless". I hope that Cooney can redeem herself by writing another and final epic about Janie Johnston and her awful teen years.

Reeve, thrilled at the chance to be a college radio shock jock, tells Janie's story on the air; the story she guards as too personal to tell anyone but Reeve; the story readers know from "Face on the Milk Carton" and "Whatever Happened to Janie?" Reeve embellishes that story for his growing radio audience, and readers will enjoy remembering past events and dreading Janie's discovery of Reeve's betrayal. From the first page of "Face..." to the last page of "Voice..." a superb plot holds read