13 Little Blue Envelopes By Maureen Johnson

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Genre: Fiction

13 Little Blue Envelopes is about a girl named Virginia, Aka Ginny, who randomly gets a message from her dead Aunt Peg. This message gives her strict instructions with $1, 000 more instructions to buy a plane ticket and 4 rules she must follow. RULE 1: she may only bring what fits in her backpack. No purse or carry on item. RULE 2: Ginny cannot bring any guidebooks, phrase books, or any kind of foreign language aid. And no journals. RULE 3: she cannot bring any extra money like credit/debit cards or traveler's checks. Aunt Peg is taking care of that. RULE 4: no "electronic crutches. This means no laptop, no cell phone, no music, and no camera. She cant call home or communticate with people in the U.S. by internet or telephone. Postcards and letters are acceptable and encouraged.

Step one of Ginny's journy is to leave her home town of New Jersey and go to her Aunt's old apartment in New York called 4th Noodle to recieve a package. The package contains the 12 envelopes in which she can only read each numbered letter after she completes the previous task. These letters take her all over Europe to places like London, Paris, Rome, Greece, Scotland and the Netherlands. Over the course of the book Ginny learns more and more not only about her dead Aunt, but herself. Ginny goes from a shy and quiet teenage girl to a mature and outgoing young woman.

I chose to read this book just because of the cover, and plus Keely said it was a good book. I think i liked the cover because of the coloring and because there is a girl that looked to be my age on the front. Books that have characters my age are easier to relate to and understand.

The title of the book does have to do with the contents inside of it. Ginny recieves a total of 13 envelopes over the course of her journy through Europe.

3 QUESTIONS I WOULD ASK MAUREEN JOHNSON :

1: Were Aunt Peg and Richard ever anything more than just roommates? During the book it just says they lived together. There isnt much information on how they met or get together.

2: How did Ginny and Keith end up? Ginny falls for Keith but Maureen never says if they ever get to speak again.

3: What was the purpose of only using letters? Obviously the dead Aunt couldnt talk to her but what made Mrs. Johnson choose letters?