The Voice on the Radio

by Caroline B. Cooney

Book Overview

In the vein of psychological thrillers like We Were Liars, Girl on the Train, and Beware That Girl , bestselling author Caroline Cooney's JANIE series delivers on every level. Mystery and suspense... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590639196
• ISBN13: 9780590639194
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Voice on the Radio

Janie and her sister, Jodie, and one of her twin brothers, Brian, went to Boston so Jodie can look at the college there for her. Reeve also went to that college and he DJ'd for a college radio station. He tells about Janie's personal life and how he felt and about her kidnapping. Janie heard one of his "janies" that he was telling and it happened to be the worst one he told about her. Janie and Reeve broke up and Jodie was sad because she was hoping to go there so she and Reeve could see Janie when she came to visit and Reeve could also help her find her way around the college and the dorms. Janie visited her real family in New Jersey and she soon began to feel close to them and the only person she told about her and Reeve was her real mother. In the end, Janie became friends with Reeve, but it didn't mean much to her.

The Mystery Keeps Rolling Out

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.

Third Book in the Janie Series

"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.

fabulous-my favorite!

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.

Through Reeve's betrayal, Janie learns about forgiveness.

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