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Romantic, interesting, tender, and enviable: Ginny Blackstone's journey of geographical and self discoveries in 13 LITTLE BLUE ENVELOPES is one that we all dream of. Who wouldn't want to be sent on a backpacking trip across Europe and do things we've never thought we were capable of doing?

Ginny's free-spirited artist aunt, Peg, died from a brain tumor. After Peg's death, a package containing 13 sealed blue envelopes is delivered to Ginny. They send her on various missions across the seas in foreign lands. All of a sudden, Ginny finds herself lugging a heavy purple-and-green backpack onto a plane and into the London flat of a man named Richard.

Peg's instructions in the envelopes further mess with Ginny's once passive existence as they instruct her to, for example, find a struggling artist whose work she admires to give money to. How does Aunt Peg seem to know that Keith, the artist Ginny chose, would be so cute and steal her heart like that?

Despite the crazy, un-Ginny-like adventures she's having, Ginny still has doubts every once in a while of what the heck exactly is she doing in Europe. Will Ginny ever come to terms with the fact that she IS capable of everything her aunt had once done?

13 LITTLE BLUE ENVELOPES is more than a fun ride through several European countries. It's a journey of self-discovery for Ginny, as a shy girl learns exactly what she is capable of. For those of us who do not have a wild aunt who will send us on an adventure through Europe, we can live through Ginny. I have read this book twice, and both times I could not put it down, preferring to lose sleep rather than wonder about what happens to Ginny.

This book...for as exciting and promising as the back cover made it sound, it was disappointing.

Seeing Europe through the eyes of an unappreciative 17-year-old was not near as interesting as I thought it would be. It was an extreme let-down because the idea of this book and the premise had such promise...

It is extremely hard to describe this book. I proclaimed it "not that great" about half way through, but I wanted to get to the end because I had a lot invested in it by that time.

I guess the short story is that the book was just that: "not that great." The main character was not lovable in any way, she was devoid of personality, and with the exception of Richard, not one of the other characters in the book had any real "soul" to them that made them someone you wanted to read about.

I guess the conclusion is that this book was a stinker, and one that made me mad too. Books that do that make me upset.

Sorry for the scatterbrained review, but this is how this book left me feeling. Scatterbrained, drained, and unsatisfied.

A book about a teen girl who goes on a worldwide scavenger hunt, when a reletive leaves her a letter. GREAT READ!! You will not want to put it down for a seconed.

This book is a very good, quick read. I really enjoyed it and could not put it down because I wanted to know what was going to happen next. Ginny annoyed me sometimes by the way she acted but overall it was a good read.

Pleasant book featuring a self-deprecating, shy teenage girl's trip around Europe while she follows the instructions in her late aunt's envelopes of the title. The main character is likable, but the supporting characters are only sketched-in. The interesting locations are light on description, but seeing as this is a novel and not a travel guide, that's okay.

This book reflects on the kind of person i want to be: BRAVE, TRUSTING, LOVING and HONEST. There wasnt a time in this entire book when i felt Maureen Johnson was being corny or fake in her writing. Her characters have enough backbone that there easily could have only been Ginny and Keith. I really enjoyed this book and its solid tale of a girl that starts to see that sometimes, impulse is the only way to act.