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Overview

The kidnapping is long past, and the Johnsons and the Springs are on the way to restoring their lives. Janie is ever grateful to her devoted boyfriend who helped her through it all. As Janie tries to balance herself between the two families, she feels torn. It seems the only thing keeping her together is her love for Reeve, but he is away at college and Janie misses him terribly. 

For Reeve, college life seems overwhelming. And as a first-time disc jockey at his college radio station, he is discovering that dead air can kill you. To fill the silence, he finds himself spilling Janie's story over the airwaves. Reeve is so sure that Janie will never find out what's making his broadcast such a hit that he doesn't stop himself. What will be the price for Janie? 

Fifteen-year-old Janie feels devastated when she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her and her family through his college radio program.

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Janie, the once-kidnapped heroine of The Face on the Milk Carton and Whatever Happened to Janie?, has her past revealed to the public when her boyfriend becomes a college DJ. "Cooney seems to have a special radar for adolescent longings and insecurities," said PW in a starred review. Ages 12-up. (Sept.)
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Readers of Cooney's addictive The Face on the Milk Carton and Whatever Happened to Janie? can start licking their chops. This juicy novel serves up the further life and times of Janie Johnson, who in the previous works learned that she had been kidnapped at age three from one loving family and deposited with another. Cooney brings new readers up to speed ingeniously: Janie's boyfriend, Reeve, now a college freshman, is trying to make a name for himself at the campus radio station, and in desperation he resorts to brief installments of Janie's twisted history. He achieves almost instant popularity and fame, which help salve his conscience for betraying Janie's deepest confidences. Meanwhile Janie, a very private person, endures her senior year of high school, fending off incursions from reporters and curious classmates, and drawing closer to her birth family, the Springs. Janie hazards upon one of Reeve's broadcasts and is devastated; Cooney compensates for the predictability of this plotting with a few gorgeously timed surprises. What this novel (and its predecessors) lacks in credibility it makes up for in psychological accuracy and well-aimed, gossipy views of teensCooney seems to have a special radar for adolescent longings and insecurities, not to mention campus chic (one of Reeve's fellow deejays, for example, affects the on-air name Derek Himself). Janie's appeal is so believable that readers will want to believe in the story, too, especially in the tender scenes between Janie and her Spring mother. Ages 12-up. (Oct.) Nonfiction
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The ALAN Review
Caroline B. Cooney does it again with The Voice on the Radio. In this sequel to The Face on the Milk Carton and Whatever Happened to Janie?, it has been one year since Janie Johnson discovered she had been kidnapped as a child. Janie is a high-school junior and in love with Reeve. She finally feels that her life is somewhat normal and begins to reconcile with her biological family, but the voice on the radio destroys her trust. Cooney plots an engaging and realistic picture of betrayal, commitment, unconditional love, and forgiveness. Readers will not put the book down until they have seen how Janie comes to terms with those she has hurt, and with those who have hurt her.
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Gr 6-10This companion to The Face on the Milk Carton (Bantam, 1990) and Whatever Happened to Janie (Delacorte, 1993) provides more intimate details about characters that readers have come to know and care about. Janie Johnson first saw her face on a milk carton one year ago. Reeve Shields, her boyfriend, is now a college freshman and dreams of being a talk-show DJ. As he stares at the microphone in the control room of the campus radio station, the story of Janie's kidnapping at the age of three begins to slide out of his mouth and into the airwaves of Boston. Janie, in the meantime, is trying to recover from six months of nonstop confusion in her life, having recently learned about her past. When she accompanies her newfound sister and brother on a trip to visit colleges (and see her boyfriend) in Boston, Reeve's voice on the radio makes their tumultuous lives veer in a completely new direction. The complexity of human thought and actions is vividly portrayed through the author's distinctive prose, and readers are drawn deeply into the minds and hearts of the characters. Teens who have never read about Janie's circumstances are brought up to speed by the seamless intertwining of former events throughout the story. Cooney's outstanding command of emotional tension has taken this novel to extraordinary heights.Jana R. Fine, Clearwater Public Library System, FL

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780385742405
  • Publisher: Random House Children's Books
  • Publication date: 5/22/2012
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 208
  • Sales rank: 946,052
  • Age range: 12 years
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 8.20 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Meet the Author

CAROLINE B. COONEY is the bestselling author of more than 30 young adult books, including the million-copy plus bestseller, The Face on the Milk Carton.

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Derek Himself stared incredulously. Cal, a deejay, and Vinnie, the station manager, who were the other two guys at the station tonight, looked up from their paperwork. All three began to snicker, and then actually to snort, with laughter, although background noise was forbidden when the mike was on; it would be picked up and broadcast. Once upon a time? A beginning for kindergartners. A beginning for fairy tales and picture books.

Reeve would never live it down. He really would have to transfer.

He pictured Cordell laughing at him. Laughed at by a roommate stupider and smellier than anybody on campus? He imagined the guys in the dorm yelling Loser! Loser! Guys he wanted to be friends with but hadn't pulled it off yet. Guys who would not be polite about how worthless Reeve was.

"Once upon a time," he repeated helplessly, stuck in horrible repetition of that stupid phrase.

And then talk arrived, like a tape that had come in the mail. For Reeve Shields really did know a story that began with "Once upon a time."

"I dated a dizzy redhead. Dizzy is a compliment. Janie was light and airy. Like hope and joy. My girlfriend," he said softly, into the microphone. Into the world.

"You know the type. Really cute, fabulous red hair, lived next door. Good in school, of course, girls like that always are. Janie had lots of friends and she was crazy about her mom and dad, because that's the kind of family people like that have."

Never had Reeve's voice sounded so rich and appealing.

"Except," said Reeve, "except one day in the school cafeteria, a perfectly ordinary day, when kids were stealing each other's desserts and spilling each other's milk, Janie just happened to glance down at the picture of that missing child printed on the milk carton."

His slow voice seemed to draw a half-pint of milk, with its little black-and-white picture of a missing child. It was almost visible, that little milk carton, that dim and wax-covered photograph.

"And the face on the milk carton," said Reeve, "was Janie herself."

He deepened his voice, moving from informative into mysterious. "They can't fit much information on the side of a half-pint," said Reeve, "but the milk carton said that little girl had been missing since she was three. Missing for twelve years."

In radio, you could not see your audience. Reeve could not know whether he really did have an audience. Radio was faith.

"Can you imagine if your daughter, or your sister, had disappeared twelve years ago? Twelve years have gone by, and yet you still believe. Surely somehow, somewhere, she must be waiting, and listening. You haven't given up hope. You refuse to admit she's probably dead by now, probably was dead all along. You believe there is a chance in a million that if you put her picture on a milk carton, she'll see it."

Beyond the mike, Reeve imagined dormitories—kids slouched on beds and floors, listening. Listening to him.

"Well," said Reeve, "she saw it."

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  • Posted February 21, 2011

    love it

    i love this book and this series i would recomend this series to who ever likes mystery and surprises! :)

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 1, 2012

    WARNING (:(:(:(:

    Dude i loved this book so much!! The plot is interesting enough to keep you hooked and you can totally relate to the characters (: WARNING: YOU MAY EXPERIENCE EXTREME ADDICTION TO THIS SERIES (;

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 13, 2012

    Anonymous

    My friend said that she really likes this book and shes really getting into it

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 1, 2012

    Gr8 book

    This is an awesome book.i love the series



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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 28, 2012

    Great Series!!!

    This book is the 3 in the janie johnson series. These books r definatly a must read.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 17, 2012

    Loovveee this book !

    But janie should love her real new jersey parents insyead og the johnsons ! I loveee this book!

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 31, 2011

    No headline

    Oh my gosh, I would make Reeve die or something instead of a traitor. Now I just HATE him. How could he do such a terrible thing to poor Janie? Reeve used to be a favorite, but now, I want him to crawl into someother book and be gone.

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  • Posted October 10, 2011

    The voice on the radio

    It was an ok book. Not that interesting

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 27, 2011

    Book

    Awsome book

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 12, 2011

    good book

    good book

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 18, 2010

    A Great Recommend

    This was a great follower.I loved it.I recommend this book 2 people who like mysterys,a kid that like their so called"KIDDNAPPED PARENTS",and a kid that is in love.This kid is Janie Johnson.A kid that is becoming trouble;that needs help from her parents,the one that she love's(Reeve) help.The real questionS are:Weich parents does she need help from?Why did Reeve do what he did and not stop himself?Read 2 find out those qusetions and the mstery behind this storyline.

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  • Posted February 22, 2010

    GREAT FOLLOW UP....

    GREAT FOLLOW UP... to "Face on the Milk Carton & What ever happened to Janie". I want to KILL REEVE....But, I understand why he did it. I wish, Janie would have listened to all the tapes. I also feel for Janie, not knowing who to care for. Great story, as a parent my heart breaks for everyone. Can't imagine the pain.

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  • Posted March 30, 2009

    The Voice on the Radio (Janie Johnson Series #3)

    The Voice on the Radio is part of the Janie Johnson Series. This book along with the others are outstanding. Caroline B. Cooney is one of the best writers working today in literature for teen readers. Although I'm not a teenager, I'd have to say that her work would be enjoyed by many adults too.

    The book, from my perspective, focuses on two important themes: What is a family? and Who am I? We live in a era when the concept of what constitutes a family has changed. This book, along with the others in this series, beginning with FACE ON THE MILK CARTON, explores the idea of family and where that is in a person's life. The series also follows Janie (she's not even sure what her real name should be) in her journey to find who she is and where she belongs in her world.

    She was kidnapped a a young child and raised by another family and then as a teenager Janie discovers her biological family and must try to figure out where she belongs: with the people who raised her for a number of years or the family from whom she was taken as a child?

    The book Voice on the Radio (it could be read all by itself) is a chapter in Janie's life where her closest friend betrays her and reveals Janie's deep secret and she must deal with her friendship as well as how this seeming stab in the back hurts her. Yet ironically this thoughtless act by her best friend allows her to discover another clue in her search for her true identity.

    Janie is an interesting character and one who any teen could identify with (even adults). Nothing is predictable in this novel or even the series. Although Voice on the Radio may be read as a discrete story, I'd recommend starting with the first book and then moving through the four books in the series. Voice on the Radio is the third in the series. Five stars as one of the best stories I've read so far this year. Caroline B. Cooney is a treasure.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 30, 2008

    I Also Recommend:

    9780060725112 9780316160179 9780142501559 9780061138362 9780440219323

    Good Series!

    <3 I do really LOVE this series...and totally love Reeve still! Reeve was a total good guy, janie's rock in the 1st and 2nd books, but now he has messed up BIG...and Janie doesn't know if she can ever forgive him. It was a ok book, you have to read it to keep the series going to make it to the 4th. But I really wish Caroline B. Cooney would have put reeve's mess-up in like the second book so Janie and Reeve could be more together in the end. :-/ Or better yet, make another one!!! :-D

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 8, 2007

    it was good but...

    In the first two books Reeve is supposed to be the good guy but all of a sudden he turns sour? I felt it was a good plot line but he knew what he was doing and he couldnt stop himself? If he truely loved Janie and cared about her family he wouldnt have done what he had done even if it was to fill up dead air. So in my opinion it was a good 3rd part to the story but he could have stopped himself but yet agian if he didnt stop him self there wouldnt be a story

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 10, 2006

    Intriguing

    I thought the Voice on the Radio was a very intriguing book. I kept wondering if Janie would find out what was being said about her on the college radio station. The way Reeve told the story about Janie was enough to make himself known around campus, and I don't think he should've sold her out for popularity. Janie and her brother and sister had a right to be mad at Reeve. He should've known better. They trusted him, and he knew the consequences, but he just kept going. I was shocked how somebody's life was what people were waiting to hear on the radio. I don't think Hannah really died like they say she did. I believe that someone died under her name, and was buried instead of her too. Since nobody really knew who she truly was, that could easily have happened. Also, I thought the ending was really good. I believe Janie and her siblings will eventually forgive Reeve. The ending leaves you hanging, wanting more, and waiting to read the next book.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 1, 2006

    WICKED

    i read this book in like one day because i thought it was SOOOOOOOO GOOD its definately a book that kept me on the edge of my seat..throughout the whole thing

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 23, 2003

    outstanding

    this was a good book. i liked how janie had learned to love both her famileys and how she loved seeing her boyfriend.and was learning how to put what happened behind her.i think that it was rong what reeve did. but it was a good book. i wish they would make a movie about all these book. i recommened the face on the milk carton the movie.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 20, 2003

    Very Good book

    What Jane (Janie) Johnson does not relize is that ever since she saw her face on the milk carton and meet her Spring family, she is slowly turning into Jennie Spring. She is finding enough love for both her families. Stephen we have to work on.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 24, 2003

    an ok companion to a Dairy Farms milk carton

    this book wasnt what i expected from cooney. the face on the milk carton was soo much better

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