Caroline B. Cooney - 1947
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Read another essay on Caroline B. Cooney by North Carolina student Jennifer Phillips. I. Background Caroline B. Cooney was born in Greenwich, Connecticut on May 10, 1947. It was just Cooney, her parents, and her brother. She loved school and did many different activities
like the playing the piano. By the time she was in the tenth grade, she was playing the piano for many musical productions, directed a choir, and had a
job as a church organist. She enjoys reading books. Some of her favorites are the Hardy Boy and Cherry Ames. She was an excellent student and graduated from Greenwich High
School in 1965. Once she got out of high school, she attended three different colleges. The first one was Indiana University, and Connecticut University where she studied music, art,
and English. The last college she attended was Massachusetts's General hospital School of Nursing. In college, she discovered writing, and a talent for it.
Cooney found the man of her dreams and married him in 1967. She now has two daughters and a son. Louisa is 18, Sayre is 15, and Harold is 11. She stayed home with her kids and
didn't work. After her first child she said that she had to discover something that would entertain her during the day. This is when she started writing as more than a hobby. Her first published work was in
Seventeen Magazine. Soon after her published story, she wrote her first book, Safe as the Grave in 1979. One year later, she wrote another book. However, this time it was for adults. It was called
Rear View Mirror. She does all of her writing from home and then mails it to the publishers. She uses family, teens, and real life situations as inspirations for her books. I. Literary Works
Face on the Milk Carton Whatever Happened to Janie Wanted! III. Other Works Emergency room IV. Caroline B. Cooney on the Web
In this book, Janie Johnson discovers the horrible truth about her past. She realizes that her parents really are not her parents and that her real ones have been looking for her for
over 10 years. She keeps it a secret form everyone but her neighbor, Reeve. The whole family has to go through change, the truth.
This book is a sequel to the face on the milk carton. At age fifteen, Janie must move in with her real parents. This is really hard for her because she is pretty much a stranger to
everyone in the family. It takes a while to get used to them. Just when it seems like it is going to work, she reverts and starts to go backwards. After awhile Janie wants to find the
woman who kidnapped her, her parents' daughter, Hannah. So she sets out to find her.
This book is about a young girl who has to deal with her father's death. Alice Robie's
father was murdered and the police are trying to figure out who did it. One day the police get an e-mail message that has a written statement of Alice confessing to the crime. Alice
knows that she has been framed. When her own mother starts to suspect her, she runs away and tries to prove her innocence.
Among Friends
Twenty Pageants later
Tune in Anytime
Out of Time
Prisoner of Time
Driver's Ed
Burning Up: A Novel
Both Sides of Time
The Voice on the Radio
What Janie Found
Operation Homefront
The Terrorist
The Stranger
Twins
The Perfume
Racing to love
The Ransom of Mercy Center
Sun, Sea, and Boys
Suntanned Days
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This essay was submitted by a student of Rita Achenbach, a teacher at Fuquay-Varina High School in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina.