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Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9780060541439
ISBN number: 0060541431
Label: HarperTeen
Manufacturer: HarperTeen
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 352
Printing Date: October 01, 2006
Publishing house: HarperTeen
Age index: Young Adult
Release Date: September 26, 2006
Sale Popularity Level: 40904
Studio: HarperTeen
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Inside little blue envelope 1 are $1,000 and instructions to buy a plane ticket.
In envelope 2 are directions to a specific London flat.
The note in envelope 3 tells Ginny: Find a starving artist.
Because of envelope 4, Ginny and a playwright/thief/ bloke–about–town called Keith go to Scotland together, with somewhat disastrous–though utterly romantic–results. But will she ever see him again?
Everything about Ginny will change this summer, and it's all because of the 13 little blue envelopes.
Ages 12+
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It was a good story, but it had some problems. First of all, none of the characters were really likeable.
On top of all that, I found Maureen's writing to be pretty bland. I mean, Ginny is on this crazy adventure around Europe, but the whole thing lacked any excitement. She could have been describing her math homework, for all the enthusiasm the girl had.
It wasn't terrible though, and if nothing else it made me really want to go back to Europe and just bum around for a few months, just to remind myself that it is actually a pretty exciting thing to do.
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Great plot, but, the author didn't know how to make a good "adventure" ou of it. It could've been a "i can't put this down" kind of book, but instead it was more like a "let me just finish this to get it over with".
SPOILER : I hated how she loses the last letter or whatever. I was like ? what the hell? this is the whole reason why you're doing this! She should've been more careful with them. Even though everything works out in the end..
I don't like how her romance with the kid she met kinda fades away by the end of the novel..
Not terrible, but not great.
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My friend did a book project on this and the idea of the story fascinated me. Overall it was a good not great book. It was wordy in all the wrong places and any problem Ginny faced didnt seem real or likely. The author had a tendency to gloss over the details.Sometimes the entire thing seemed unrealistic. So many things could have gone wrong with an unsupervised minor trekking acorss Europe but none of those issues were addressed. At the end of the book I felt muddled and tired just like Ginny. Considering the kinds of book I have read in this genre it was an excellent book and i recomend it but I think there are better, more detailed books out there.
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Summary:
Ginny's Aunt Peg ran away and then died of a brain tumor. One day Ginny recieves a letter from her, the very first of the 13 little blue envelopes. Shes told to go to New York City, to 4th Noodle. A Chinese resturant under Peg's old apartment, there something would be waiting for Ginny. But also buy a plane ticket to London. And a few rules: she can only take what will fit into her backpack. She can't take guidebooks, phrase books, any foreign language aid or journals. She can't take extra money and she can't take electronics, she can only write letters and postcards to people back home. So Ginny sets off the 4th Noodle where she gets the rest of the envelopes, that she most open one by one, after the task in the one before is finished.
Why I LOVED this book:
It's funny, alot of books are just mysteriouis or adventurous and no funny. This book mixes it all! It's an adventure, sort of a mystery and funny.
I learned about other countries and foreign places
Maureen Johnsonn doesn't sit and write every little thing out. After Ginny reads an envelope she doesn't say she went to the train station and boarded a train to a certain place. Nope after she reads an envelope she's in that certain place.
I think it's more of a girly book
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One day, Virginia Blackstone, or Ginny, receives a letter from her dead aunt with instructions to go to a Chinese restaurant. There, Ginny receives a bundle of twelve letters, for a grand total of thirteen, thus naming the novel. Four simple rules are laid down by Peg, Ginny's aunt, and there are more instructions enclosed in each letter, to be opened at a specific place and time. All Ginny needs to do to begin her journey is fly to London. And so she does.
Ginny embarks on a crazy, all-over-the-place trip that takes her around Europe, to places that were significant to her aunt Peg. Along the way, she meets a playwright and used-to-be-thief named Keith, who she maybe falls in love with, many old friends of Peg, some new friends in various cities, and even an uncle she never knew she had. And during this journey, Ginny learns a lot about herself and her aunt Peg.
I found 13 Little Blue Envelopes to be a very well-written novel. Maureen Johnson is an amazing author and has proved herself again. I especially liked traveling with Ginny to all those amazing European cities and feeling like I was there beside her. Ginny's relationship with Keith is especially cute too. There were some parts of the book where I was a little confused, but the issue was always cleared up soon after. The idea behind the novel is original, and I found myself wishing I had a crazy aunt to send me on a strange trip to Europe. This was a realistic and very enjoyable read. I highly recommend this, and other Maureen Johnson books.
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