13 Little Blue Envelopes
- 338
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
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Our view
Letters from a dead aunt send a teenager backpacking across Europe in “13 Little Blue Envelopes”, a light and inventive travel story. Some readers value that the journey is shown with its discomforts and fears, and finish it wanting to travel themselves. Under the adventure runs a story of grief for the aunt who planned it.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson’s funny, heartbreaking, and utterly romantic tale gets a great new cover! Ginny Blackstone never thought she’d spend her summer vacation backpacking across Europe. But that was before she received the first little blue envelope from Aunt Peg. This letter was different from Peg’s usual letters for two reasons: 1. Peg had been dead for three months. 2. The letter included $1000 cash for a passport and a plane ticket. Armed with instructions for how to retrieve twelve other letters Peg wrote—twelve letters that tell Ginny where she needs to go and what she needs to do when she gets there—Ginny quickly finds herself swept away in her first real adventure. Traveling from London to Edinburgh to Amsterdam and beyond, Ginny begins to uncover stories from her aunt’s past and discover who Peg really was. But the most surprising thing Ginny learns isn’t about Peg . . . it’s about herself. Everything about Ginny will change this summer, and it’s all because of the 13 little blue envelopes. Look for the sequel, The Last Little Blue Envelope!
Where the score comes from
The sources average 6.8 across 110 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 43% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Young adult average of 7.8. That is how 7.4 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 6.8 | 110 | 100% |
Frequently asked
What age is 13 Little Blue Envelopes for?
13 Little Blue Envelopes sits on the Young adult shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 13 and up. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 338 pages — shorter than 78% of the ranked books in Young adult.
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Same shelf — Young adult — with scores between 7.3 and 7.4, closest to this book.
