It's a gripper. You can't put it down. --Entertainment Weekly

A real page-turner. --Kirkus Reviews

No one ever really paid close attention to the faces of the missing children on the milk cartons. But as Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the ordinary little girl with her hair in tight pigtails, wearing a dress with a narrow white collar--a three-year-old who had been kidnapped twelve years before from a shopping mall in New Jersey--she felt overcome with shock. She recognized that little girl--it was her. How could it possibly be true?

Janie can't believe that her loving parents kidnapped her, but as she begins to piece things together, nothing makes sense. Something is terribly wrong. Are Mr. and Mrs. Johnson really her parents? And if not, who is Janie Johnson, and what really happened?

As Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the ordinary little girl on the milk carton, she was overcome with shock. She recognized that little girl--it was she. How can it possibly be true? But it is.

With the mystery of her kidnapping now unraveled, Janie's story continues, and the nightmare is not over. No one can bring back or relive the 12 years gone by. The Spring family wants justice, but who is really to blame? The Johnsons know that they must abide by the court decisions made, but it's difficult to figure out what's best for everyone.

Janie Johnson or Jenny Spring? Who is she? Certainly there's enough love for everyone, but how can the two separate families live happily ever after?

I'm Going to Give You a Bear Hug!, written by bestselling author Caroline B. Cooney and illustrated by Tim Warnes, is a playful and comforting bedtime book that helps your child imagine all the wonderful and silly ways someone might give and receive a hug. And the lively text and illustrations show the special connection between a parent and a child.

I'm Going to Give You a Bear Hug!:

• Has sweet, whimsical rhymes that encourage playful interaction between a caretaker and child
• Helps kids 0-4 wind down and drift off to sleep
• Features all the ways kids love to snuggle with the ones they love with humor and whimsy
• Celebrates the special bond parents, grandparents, and loved ones have with the children in their lives
• Is perfect for bedtime and lap reading, as well as a gift for birthdays, Valentine's Day, Easter, and Christmas

Whether it's a big bear, gasp for air, knock over a chair hug or a wet and drippy, slimy, slippy fish hug, children will giggle their way through all the imaginative examples of hugs we can give and receive.

If you enjoy I'm Going to Give You a Bear Hug!, be sure to check out I'm Going to Give You a Polar Bear Hug! for more hugging fun!

I'm Going to Give You a Bear Hug!, written by bestselling author Caroline B. Cooney and illustrated by Tim Warnes, is a playful and comforting bedtime book that helps your child imagine all the wonderful and silly ways someone might give and receive a hug. And the lively text and illustrations show the special connection between a parent and a child.

I'm Going to Give You a Bear Hug!:

• Has sweet, whimsical rhymes that encourage playful interaction between a caretaker and child
• Helps kids 0-4 wind down and drift off to sleep
• Features all the ways kids love to snuggle with the ones they love with humor and whimsy
• Celebrates the special bond parents, grandparents, and loved ones have with the children in their lives
• Is perfect for bedtime and lap reading, as well as a gift for birthdays, Valentine's Day, Easter, and Christmas

Whether it's a big bear, gasp for air, knock over a chair hug or a wet and drippy, slimy, slippy fish hug, children will giggle their way through all the imaginative examples of hugs we can give and receive.

If you enjoy I'm Going to Give You a Bear Hug!, be sure to check out I'm Going to Give You a Polar Bear Hug! for more hugging fun!

Janie Johnson has received unwanted attention ever since she recognized her three-year-old self in a picture on the back of a milk carton and learned that she was the victim of a kidnapping. Now she's headed for college to make a fresh start.

Janie's kidnapper has been hiding all these years and is just as desperate to become a new person--and more determined than ever to seek revenge.

In this riveting conclusion to Cooney's beloved JANIE series, all will be revealed as readers find out if Janie and Reeve's love has endured, and whether or not the person who brought Janie and her family so much emotional pain and suffering is brought to justice.

No one knows what happened to the killer. Janie Johnson's two families appear to have made peace. Life seems almost normal. Janie has even decided to speak to her former boyfriend, Reeve, again. But then Janie's Connecticut father suffers a stroke, and the tragedy leaves her mother reeling. Janie must step in to manage family finances and to support her mother emotionally.

While handling her father's business matters, Janie discovers the one undeniable fact that could destroy both of her beloved families. And she alone must decide what to do.

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?

Now in softcover, I'm Going to Give You a Bear Hug!, written by bestselling author Caroline B. Cooney and illustrated by Tim Warnes, is a playful and comforting bedtime book that helps your child imagine all the wonderful and silly ways someone might give and receive a hug.

Whether it's a big bear, gasp for air, knock over a chair hug or a wet and drippy, slimy, slippy fish hug, children will giggle their way through all the imaginative examples of hugs we can give and receive.

I'm Going to Give You a Bear Hug!:

• Has sweet, whimsical rhymes and lively illustrations that encourage playful interaction between a caretaker and child
• Prepares kids ages 4-8 to drift off to sleep, remembering how loved they are
• Features all the humorous and whimsical wayskids snuggle with the ones they love
• Celebrates the special bond children have with the parents, grandparents, and loved ones in their lives
• With over 100,000 copies sold, perfect for bedtime and lap reading, as well as a gift for birthdays, or holiday gift-giving

If you enjoy I'm Going to Give You a Bear Hug!, be sure to check out I'm Going to Give You a Polar Bear Hug! for more hugging fun!

Imagine all the cozy, warm hugs little ones love to receive on cold, blustery days. This highly huggable sequel to the bestselling and beloved I'm Going to Give You a Bear Hug! encourages parents and grandparents and their children and grandchildren to giggle and play as they cozy up for their own celebration of the winter season.

From acclaimed author and illustrator pair Caroline B. Cooney and Tim Warnes comes I'm Going to Give You a Polar Bear Hug!, a delightful padded board book with adorable, cuddly illustrations that inspire children to get cozy and as they follow along with a story overflowing with winter fun.

Imagine who might stomp, sled, and swish through the snow to give a warm hug in these whimsical rhymes and sweet, playful illustrations. Then laugh and play your way through this celebration of the winter season.

I'm Going to Give You A Polar Bear Hug!:

• Is a perfect cuddle-up-and-snuggle padded board book for kids age 0 to 4, babies and toddlers alike.
• Is written by bestselling author Caroline B. Cooney with adorable illustrations by Tim Warnes
• Is the follow-up to the highly successful I'm Going to Give You a Bear Hug!, read to over 100,000 children, resulting in at least that many hugs
• Makes a wonderful Christmas and birthday gift
• Has a cover adorned with glitter for sparkle and shine

Missy and her cousin Claire are best friends who finish each other's sentences and practically read each other's minds. It's an eerie connection--so eerie that Missy has questions she wants to put to her parents. But she's afraid to ask. So when Missy hears an expert discussing newborn babies on the radio, it makes her wonder about her family.

Missy just can't let go of those nagging questions, and decides to use a school project about scientific hoaxes to try to uncover the answers. She enlists Claire to help. As part of the project the girls perform a dramatic scene that is captured on video at school. After the video is posted on YouTube, Missy and Claire realize that they've opened Pandora's box and much more than they ever imagined has come out. Not only are their identities called into question, but so is the future of everyone involved.

In this riveting, heartrending story by thriller author Caroline B. Cooney, the truth changes the lives of three families--as the bonds of blood must withstand the strains of long-hidden secrets that are at last revealed.

Laura and Billy Williams are two ordinary American expat kids living with their parents in England. Then, in an instant, everything changes when Billy is handed a mysterious package in a London Underground station . . .

Billy's tragic death leaves a hole in Laura's heart, one that soon becomes filled with anger and a burning obsession to find the terrorist responsible for taking her brother's life. Her search for the truth takes her into dangerous territory, forcing Laura to question everyone she knows and everything she believes.

The bestselling author of The Face on the Milk Carton ratchets up the tension in this thriller about a girl who will stop at nothing to separate the truth from the lies.

In Caroline B. Cooney's epic tale of one girl's courage and will to survive, Anaxandra learns that home is where you make it and identity goes deeper than just your name.

She thought she had left that life behind forever. She was wrong.

1964: Christaphine is twenty years old, newly married, and determined to make a home and a life for her and her husband, Tommy. But when Christaphine discovers Tommy and his friends on the verge of committing a horrible crime, she does what she has to do to stop them. Afterwards, she knows she can't ever go home again--so she disappears.

50 years later: When Clemmie's neighbor, Muffin, drags her from Sunday morning service at Trinity Hill Church, convinced that the man she's just spotted across the aisle is a dangerous figure from her past, at first Clemmie thinks she's being dramatic. But as Muffin reveals to Clemmie what happened in the middle of a field in South Carolina five decades ago, Clemmie realizes her friend has been keeping dark secrets--just as Clemmie herself has. And the secrets that belong to both women are not the kind that can be revealed without dire consequences...

As kids, Meghan, West, and Lannie played freeze tag--but with Lannie, nothing was normal. With one touch, she could turn anyone as cold as ice, a human statue frozen in time.

Years later, they're in high school and everyone remembers Lannie's power as a silly childhood fantasy. But when Meghan and West become the perfect couple, Lannie intends to collect on a promise West made her all those years ago: If he doesn't love her, she'll freeze Meghan--and this time it will be forever.

Known for her intense, emotional thrillers like The Face on the Milk Carton, Caroline B. Cooney once again delivers an addictive, spine-tingling tale of love gone wrong.

When she's callously kicked out of choir class, Nicoletta dreads having to take art appreciation instead. Then she sets eyes on Jethro, a new kid whose dark beauty makes her wish she actually knew how to paint. Nicoletta is so mesmerized she finds herself following the brooding, mysterious stranger home. At least, that's where she thinks he's going . . .

In the safety of the woods, Jethro's power seems to surge, almost as if the trees and boulders of the forest rise up to greet him. He's so different, so beautiful, so . . . inhuman. Before long, Jethro becomes Nicoletta's obsession. And while the truth about his nature is terrifying, Nicoletta may already be in too deep.

By turns alluring and unsettling, this novel from the author of the Janie Johnson series is unafraid to explore the stranger things in life.

Caroline B. Cooney, beloved international bestselling author, captures the technicolor complicated human heart in this literary Southern mystery about one secret afternoon in 1964 when a young wife barreling down a dirt road in her station wagon chooses not to be a bystander.

Until this Sunday, Muffin never looked back.

1964: Christaphine is twenty years old, newly married, and determined to make a home and a life for her and her husband, Tommy. But when Christaphine discovers Tommy and his friends on the verge of committing a horrible crime, she does what she has to do to stop them. Afterwards, she knows she can't ever go home again--so she disappears...until this Sunday.

50 years later: When Clemmie's neighbor, Muffin, drags her from Sunday morning service at Trinity Hill Church, convinced that the man she's just spotted across the aisle is a dangerous figure from her past, at first Clemmie thinks she's being dramatic. But as Muffin reveals to Clemmie what happened in the middle of a field in South Carolina five decades ago, Clemmie realizes her friend has been keeping dark secrets--just as Clemmie herself has. And the secrets that belong to both women are not the kind that can be revealed without dire consequences...

Rose was thrilled when Angelica Lofft invited her to spend the weekend at her family's beautiful lake house. It had everything a girl could want: delicious treats, gorgeous horses, and an exquisite pool. But instead of a weekend of fun in the sun, someone ended up dead.

Four years later, the police have reopened the case. This time they have Rose's diary--her private, personal diary--and Rose will do anything to get it back, even if it means stealing a police car. But now that she's destroyed the evidence, the police are convinced she saw something. And the longer Rose keeps her secrets, the more she risks losing everything . . .

From the bestselling author of The Face on the Milk Carton comes a gripping thriller about the lies people tell and the consequences they can't escape.

In order to get an edge over the competition for medical school, Seth decides to volunteer at City Hospital. Diana is there to save the world--one patient at a time. These two college freshmen have little in common, except the desire to be part of the ER's action.

Confronted with gunshot wounds and gruesome accidents, they both get a taste of the chaotic world of emergency medicine, and of the effect they can have on other people. Hour by hour, minute by minute, Diana and Seth's adrenaline-fueled shift will alter the course of their lives. In one night, working among the doctors and nurses, they'll learn more about medicine--and themselves--than they ever could have expected.

The multimillion-copy bestselling author of the Janie Johnson series takes readers into a life-and-death world in this captivating thriller.