It is challenging for an author to create a successful sequel especially when the first novel, The Face on the Milk Carton, is developed through mystery, suspense, and romance. The sequel, Whatever Happened to Janie?, chronicles Janie (now known as Jennie) adjusting to her real family. The legal rights of the Springs are upheld in court and respected by everyone so their long lost daughter comes to live with them. Sharing a cramped room with her sister Jodie, enduring the anger and embitterment of her older brother Stephen, and witnessing the heartbreak of her real parents as she hesitates to accept them, gives this novel a tense, painful atmosphere. The FBI and their continuing search for Hannah brings about a truce among Jodie, Stephen and Jennie as they search the underside of New York City for this shadowy personage. This sequel was named an ALA Best...