Why don't people talk more about this novel? I picked it randomly from the YA shelf at my library, because I couldn't find anything I was looking for. I thought it seemed like it would be boring but I was incredibly wrong. There is so much to love. The characters are incredible, the details are a...
I finished this book in a day, so it's a quick read. I like the plot, and it opens up conversation about a meaningful theme of which most of my students can offer personal insight: abandonment. One reviewer stated it was completely unrealistic that a daughter would still hold out hope...that lo...
Caroline B. Cooney has written a heartfelt book about how families change. Lutie Painter is a high school student whose mother is a drug addict and is not really a part of her life. Lutie lives with her grandmother until her she fell off her porch and died. Her favorite class is choir, until t...
Author: Caroline B Cooney Subject: The Vampire's Promise 2--Evil Returns Tone of Book: Philosophical Links: http://www.vampires.nu/pages/Books.cf... http://www.ffbooks.co.uk/n4/n20276.htm Characters: Devnee, Aryssa, Victoria, vampire, Devnee's mother, Trey, William, Karen My Response to the Book:...
Where should I start on this?Well I'm going to poke at that cover for having a bottle that looks NOTHING like the one in the book.Now on to the real review:Dove Daniels (What a name) is the main character. She is a 15 yr old goody-goody with some odd phobias. She checks her bed for monsters, she ...
I read the book, The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney. It was published in 1990 by Dell Books for Young Readers. Cooney is the author of many other books that include Driver’s Ed and the sequel to Face on the Milk Carton, Whatever Happened to Janie? Now, I admit I’ve only read this o...
The novel, Whatever Happened to Janie, by Caroline B. Cooney is about a teenage girl that has a difficult time adjusting to a group of strangers that is her family. She grew up with a kind and caring man and woman, but she finds out she has been living a lie and the family she has had is not her ...
This is the weakest book in the series so far, as it focuses on Reeve's college experience of skipping class and putting Janie's deepest secrets and ugliest thoughts out live on the radio. As a boyfriend he just keeps getting worse, and as a character he has no real redeeming qualities. Other tha...
Caroline Cooney's classic tale of suspense, in a bold new packageMary Lee and Madrigal are identical twins, exactly alike in every way. Until they are separated -- then Mary Lee wishes she could live her sister's life. And then she gets her wish . . . along with a horrifying discovery.
It all started with a phone call. In a tense voice, Alice's very rational father suggests that she drive his precious Corvette and meet him. But Alice doesn't have a driver's license. "It doesn't matter!" he yells. Yet he never shows up. Something is very wrong. Then Alice hears an announcement...
So far in this book, Janie Johnson has been thinking about her Conneticuit father who's in the hospital because he had a stroke and a heart attack. Reeve, Janie's neighbor, and Brian, Janie's brother, were staying with Janie and her Conneticuit mother throughout the beginning of the summer.Janie ...
Basic premise was good, how would kids handle escaping a forest fire without any adults around to help them? The problem was that all the characters, particularly the parents, were like caricatures. No one was normal, everyone was just so over-the top: the tofu-eating tree huggers; the harpy mom ...
Imagine changing centuries - and making things worse, not better, on both sides of time.Imagine being involved in two love triangles in two different centuries.Imagine discovering that, no matter which direction you travel in time, you must abandon someone you love.Meet fifteen-year-old Annie Loc...
Reviewed by Me for TeensReadToo.comBlended families, a deadbeat dad, religion, sibling rivalry, abandonment. These are all issues that Caroline B. Cooney tackles, quite deftly, in A FRIEND AT MIDNIGHT. When eight-year-old Michael decides to go live with his father, it's a strain on the entire fam...
No family is perfect, right? That's not what 15-year-old Shelley Wollcott thinks. She, her younger brother Angus and older sister Joanna are the children of a twice-divorced man. Shelley knows her family is anything but normal, so when her immediate family is invited to her father's hometown of B...
This was one of my favorite books when I was growing up.There is a huge range of novels out there concerning the Trojan War and the men and women whose lives were changed by the great event - so many books in fact, that it is difficult to find one that doesn't feel stale and predictable (after al...
Code Orange was an exciting book. I think this would be novel that would capture the interest of readers from grades sixth through ninth. The main character in Code Orange is Mitty Blake, an affluent New York City teen who cares more about socializing and listening to music than achieving academi...
Reviewed by Sally Kruger, aka "Readingjunky" for TeensReadToo.comI've been a fan of Caroline B. Cooney ever since reading THE FACE ON THE MILK CARTON years ago. That being said, I was thrilled when I saw she has a new book, DIAMONDS IN THE SHADOW. True to her contemporary style, Cooney brings in ...
04/12/2014 Book 3 DRIVER’S EDThis book starts being more and more interesting over time for several reasons. First when the book starts it gives you no information about people in the book. The only information it gives is that Remy Marland is a girl and has pale blue jeans. One...
Among Friends Book Review In this mysterious novel, Among Friends, written by Caroline B. Cooney, Jennie is perfect. What matters most to her is demolished when she tries to outshine everyone with her perfection. Her friends are filled with jealousy and rage over her. They feel like she is leavin...
I was a young teen when this book came out and it quickly became a favorite of mine. Caroline Cooney, for all that she wrote a lot of lighthearted fluff, is a master of dialogue, her books are always shot through with witty quips and memorable turns of phrase. Despite the fact that I can recite p...
Of all the books in this miniseries - which I love, btw - I like Summer Nights the least. Which is a shame, since a series you love should go out on a high note. I'm never quite sure whether this was written by Caroline B Cooney, or by someone ghostwriting for her. Some of the Cooney hallmarks th...
I was very excited to read this book since I grew up being a big fan of Caroline Cooney’s books. As weird as it sounds, I used to pretend I was Janie Johnson from The Face on the Milk Carton (if you read the book, you know how strange this is). I can’t say I was a huge fan of The Terrorist and it...
They just wanted to have some fun. Randy, the initator of the whole stay-over at The Mall House thing, did not foresee the danger that lurked in their home for the night, which was actually nothing but a vampire's nest. The 6 of them: Lacey, Randy, Sherree, Zach, Roxanne, and Bobby, each lead dif...
Flight #116 Is Down by Caroline B. Cooney is realistic fiction novel. The book is a timeline from when Flight 116 takes off until it has problems. The events are told through the perspective of many different characters and the actions they take when the jumbo jet experiences issues during flig...
Teens looking for a mystery should like this one. Although for some it might develop slowly, I thought it set up Rose's feelings well, leaving you as the reader wondering why she would go to such lengths to hide her diary. Why won't she speak? What did she see four years ago? I liked that in ...
I thought that fantasy and adventure books were my favorite novels. I saw this book in my school library, and because it had to do with music I grabbed it and read. Pulling an all nighter to read each and every word as clear as humanly possible was worth it. I love rock music, and this book made ...
"New Year's Eve" by Caroline B. Cooney was funny and refreshing. It's the story of a group of girls who are looking forward to their big night on New Year's Eve. They get all dressed up, cut their hair and get ready to have the time of their life.Unfortunatly, like more things, especially when ...
Date: 10/13/11Genre: MysteryAuthor: Caroline B. CooneyPage: 3-8 This book is about a girl named Jersey. She got accepted to her dads college and that college has a dorm. Her dad gave her hundred dollars because Jersey got accepted into her dad's college. With that money, Jersey wants to go to the...
"Whenever I see a good-looking boy. I am impressed first and embarrassed second. I am never quite sure what embarrasses me, but I start blushing as if I had written about him in my diary and he had just read it... Nancy has lots of dream dates-but no real ones. She never knows what to say or how ...
From best-selling author Caroline Cooney comes this suspenseful story of Meghan, whose relationship with her perfect boyfriend is destroyed by a girl who can freeze people with a touch of her finger. When Meghan and West first played Freeze Tag with Lannie, it was no ordinary game. Because when ...
Losing Christina Trilogy -Fog -Snow -Fire Story Summary Fog: Christina leaves her home on Burning Fog Isle, off the Maine coast, to go to school on the mainland. She can handle the work, she can handle the kids who scorn her. But there's one thing she can't handle. The Evil. Something very danger...
Christina is 13 years old. She’s an island child, excited to leave for the mainland, a small town in Maine, to start high school. Her older island friends, Anya, Michael and Benj warn her that the town kids will tease and mock her island ways. They tell her not to “yarn”. What they don’t prepare ...
I think I disliked this book because it wasn't what I was expecting. It was really a cozy-heist novel. As in it was about a heist, but the main character (and all the characters pretty much) were such goodie-goods that it felt like I was reading a cozy mystery. There was no mystery in this book, ...
Honestly, I thought the book itself was ok, but I felt the main character learned nothing throughout the entire book. She was really all about falling in love and she seriously didnt care who fell in love with her as long as they loved her. I was a bit shocked at how naive and ignorant this chara...
If there's one thing Holly can't stand it's cold weather. And, it seems, the only other person in her whole town who feels the same way is Jamie.Jamie is the first boy Holly has ever really liked, but her friends accuse her of "robbing the cradle" - for Jamie is a full year younger than Holly.Hol...
The police will ask questions she isn’t going to answer and the lawyer will tell her not to anyway. She drags herself down the hall. She is so tired she could sleep for a week. The lawyer says it is Sunday. Day of rest. Day of worship. Day of thick heavy newspapers. She is religious. But she cann...
Cooney Caroline B. Cooney is the author of ninety books for teen readers, including the bestselling thriller The Face on the Milk Carton. Her books have won awards and nominations for more than one hundred state reading prizes. They are also on recommended-reading lists from the American Library ...
SAID CHRISTINA for the third time, “was torn into pieces. Blake ripped it off the wall. Now it’s together again. That’s why Anya dropped out of high school. That’s why she’s working in the laundromat.” Christina’s father jammed his hands into his jeans pockets and stared out the window. Christina...
Nick, wearing such unexpected adult clothing, would sort of bow, and say “Good evening” in that awful canned tour guide voice. My friends would start to laugh, thinking he was imitating somebody, or joking. Then they’d see he wasn’t trying to be funny, he was really like that; they’d look at me i...
said my father anxiously. “Not so good. I kept yawning in her face.” My father looked at me in utter disgust. He had raised me all these years so I could spend a college interview yawning? “It was hot in there, Dad. I got sleepy. I kept trying to bite on the yawns and keep them inside my mouth, b...
Nobody cares, Molly had said. And nobody did. Because nobody argued, nobody turned to comfort Kip, nobody put his arm around her. Nobody even noticed. She meant to find the bathroom—that ever-perfect place for a girl to run when she had problems, emotional or physical. A double hiding place—the r...
Across the Giza plateau, by carriage and sedan chair, by donkey and camel came the party guests, having spent the night in Cairo, and only now returning to the dig. Miss Matthews and Dr. Lightner were astride donkeys so small their feet dragged in the dust. Strat hoped Miss Matthews had enjoyed h...
Mercy tucked her brothers in, packing them close. Or any night, she told the Lord, shifting her weight from foot to foot. Even though she wore both pairs of stockings to bed, the cold of the floor came through the heavy wool. It was the coldest night she could remember during a winter when every ...
There is a little hill and then two tennis courts on the flat top of the rise. Long ago, some do-gooder decided to beautify the courts by planting pretty little roses along the outside of the wire enclosure of the courts. As the years passed, the roses became huge, vicious thorn bushes. Anyone tr...
SMITHY TURNS AWAY AND stares out the window on her right. In the exterior rearview mirror, she spots the white television van. Angus flicks his turn signal and takes the off-ramp. Two cars later, the van also exits. At the light, Angus signals a left. The van follows. Smithy feels about five year...
Janie loved those two words. Since the milk carton, her life had been chaos. Yet here she was, safe inside senior year, the two final semesters every teenager daydreamed about. All bad things were behind her. Yet as September moved into October, she felt that the other kids were growing more awar...
“I’ll fix him!” said Wing. Wing was panting. Oxygen leaped into the lungs and coursed through the body, like a bright angry wind blowing Dove backward. The condominiums stood still and watched, their miniblinds like a million flat eyes. No human eyes looked out; all human eyes were at work. Whate...
“Marnie,” he said suddenly, reaching across the open space between our seats in the VW bus, and grabbing my hand. “Marnie, what is that?” For a second I was actually scared. I looked around fearfully and then I burst out laughing. “Don’t be afraid, son,” I said robustly. “It’s called a stoplight....
Then I panicked. I would have to call him. He loves me, I thought, mentally stripping a daisy of its petals. He loves me not. He needs a pianist for his birthday party to which he will ask some other girl. He wants to ask me to a party. He needs to know the name of a Baroque composer for a histor...
She lost weight from all the excitement. At the drugstore, she bought hair dye and a pair of glasses. The sparkling blue frames matched her eyes and now her hair had a beautiful sheen. She even took a class, using her Jill Williams persona. It was one of those free evening classes and she didn’t ...
While the others went out, she was forced to stay inside. It snowed all day: a light, friendly snow, the kind you turned your face up into and held out your tongue to collect a flake from the sky. Mr. Shevvington went to the school, where he said he would be all day. He took his briefcase, waving...