74 pages 2 hours read

Caroline B. Cooney

The Face on the Milk Carton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1990

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Answer Key

Chapters 1-3

Reading Check

1. Getting a driver’s license and her “future family” (Chapter 1)

2. It has a photo of recently kidnapped children on the carton. (Chapter 1)

3. Jennie Spring (Chapter 2)

4. There are no photos of her as a baby. (Chapter 3)

5. Cake decorating (Chapter 3)

Short Answer

1. Janie does not have smooth hair like her peers and does not drink milk because she is lactose intolerant. (Chapter 1)

2. Reeve picks up a dazed Janie from school in his car, and they drive out to a scenic overlook to watch the impending flood. They then go for ice cream, and when their sundaes are delivered, Janie has a “daymare” of herself eating sundaes with a woman when she was younger. She feels ill and they leave. (Chapter 2)

Chapters 4-6

Reading Check

1. Because she learns from her friend Adair that she needs her birth certificate to get her driver’s license (Chapter 4)

2. A kiss (Chapter 5)

3. A football game (Chapter 6)

4. She is terrified from this idea.