Reading order
Janie Johnson reading order
- The Face on the Milk Carton1990
- Whatever Happened to Janie1993
- The Voice on the Radio1996
- What Janie Found2000
- Janie Face to Face2013
1- 7.67.6 / 10105 ratings
- Score
- 5 volumes
- Volumes
- 1990–2013
- Published
- about 20 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
- Young adult
- Genre
Quick answer
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Publication order
5 volumes1990–2013Completed
- Caroline B. Cooney’s young adult series begins with The Face on the Milk Carton: fifteen-year-old Janie Johnson recognises her own face on a missing child notice on a milk carton and starts to suspect that the loving parents who raised her are not who she thought.
- A gripping premise that hooked a generation and was filmed for television.
- Only the first book has enough ratings, and they are modest; the four sequels follow both families.
- Read in order.
A plan for the whole series
5 volumes, 1,107 pages, about 20 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 4 weeks.
Stages
This series fits in one stage. You finish around November 25, 2026.
- Stage 120 habout 4 weeksby November 25, 2026
- 1. The Face on the Milk Carton
- 2. Whatever Happened to Janie
- 3. The Voice on the Radio
- 4. What Janie Found
- 5. Janie Face to Face
- The end of the series
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How this plan is calculated
The plan comes from the pages and ratings of each volume: we split the series into stages of about three weeks’ reading, size each break to the stage before it, and read the chance of finishing from how many readers rate the last volume compared with the first. How we work out the plan →
Every volume in order
Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026
Frequently asked questions
Which Janie Johnson book is the longest?
“Janie Face to Face” is the longest at 352 pages; the shortest is “What Janie Found” with 181 pages.
What should I read after Janie Johnson?
Other series by Caroline B. Cooney: Time Travelers Quartet.