Title: 13 Little Blue Envelopes

Title: 13 Little Blue Envelopes

Author: Maureen Johnson

Publication date: 2005

Publishing place: United States

Genre: Young adult novel

Style Fast passing

Bibliographic information: Maureen Johnson is an American author of young adult fiction. She has published ten young adult novels to date, including the Shades of London series and the Suite Scarlett series.

Annotation: Virginia "Ginny" Blackstone, a seventeen-year-old girl who is on summer break before her final year of high school, has received 13 blue envelopes from her self-proclaimed "Runaway Aunt" Peg, who is now dead. Ginny is told that she is about to leave for several weeks and will travel to foreign lands. Her aunt leaves her four rules to follow.Ginny is only allowed to open the next envelope once she has reached the destination or has completed the task set in the previous letter.

The envelopes lead her to London, where she meets a "starving" artist named Keith, and Aunt Peg's best friend and roommate, Richard. She realizes she has a crush on Keith, and they go to Scotland to meet her aunt's guru, artist Mari Adams. After she has an argument with Keith, they part ways, though they meet again briefly in Paris. Later, she encounters a horrible hotel in Amsterdam, along with a very hyperactive family. Following the letters, she goes to Denmark and meets four Australian students, Emmett, Bennett, Nigel, and Carrie. Together they form the "Blue Envelope Gang" and follow the second-to-last envelope to Greece. On the way, the 12th envelope tells her she can open the last one whenever she feels ready.

While in Greece, her backpack is stolen, along with the 13th envelope. After all she writes a letter to her aunt, letting her know that even though she never read the 13th envelope, she knows what it said. Ginny finally makes her way back home to New Jersey, after leaving half the inheritance to Richard.

Themes: The novel drives home the importance of family, love, and the value of connections that you make with people

Personal evaluation: I think the thing is, when you read it, you have to really imagine what it's like wherever Ginny is. Johnson does a good enough job with description to make that possible, if you really put yourself in Ginny's shoes then it's actually quite good.

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