Janie later decides that she must know if she was kidnapped or not and goes to look for the polka dot dress in the attic. She finds it in a box with a lot of papers with the name Hannah written on them. Because she does not know who Hannah is she eventually goes to ask her parents about her. They are at first reluctant to say but feel that she must know. Her parents later tell her that the people that she is now living with are not her parents but her grandparents, and that Hannah was her real mother. In search of Hannah she asks around and thinks about the fact that maybe Hannah was the one that actually kidnapped her. Janie looks at pictures of Hannah and sees that she looks nothing like her. She then decides to go and see the family that lost their daughter. She finds the address on the milk carton and goes. She does not go in but simply looks at the children going in the house. They all have red hair, and look just like her. Janie seems to be influenced by her friends and boy friend to tell her real parents that she is alive and safe. But she loves her family that she has now, and might not like her real family. At her house now, everything is orderly and looks very neat. But the other family didn't look so neat. They just threw their stuff in the house and had toys on the lawn. She gets very worried about the way that they might react if she were to call them. She does not want to live with them but just wants to tell them everything is fine.
In this book I can understand that she would want to stay with her family because changing would be like living with absolute strangers. I think that I would also want to find my real parents but I find it rather hard to believe that she just went out and called her real parents! The book also showed me what it was like to be used to living with a family and not wanting live with a different one. I could never imagine being kidnapped! Janie's battle to decide what to do goes on in the book that follows this one.