Though Ginny’s adventures, she learns more about herself, her own ingenuity, strength, and abilities to forgive and also discovers that she too can be an exciting person. She also learns about her aunt’s last year of life since she had already died from brain tumor by the time the first letter arrived. Through these letters, Ginny gets to learn more about what led her aunt to flee Europe in pursuit of her art.
The instructions are quite specific, no maps, no cell phones, and Ginny can only open one envelope at a time after the task in the previous letter has been completed. The envelope contains money (1000 dollars) in cash and the instruction to pick up several packages of letters that begin Ginny on a trip around Europe tracing the steps of her outlandish aunt. She is to fly to London, but she cannot carry with her any crutches. It is a modern day coming of age tale that centers on Virginia Blackstone, also known as Ginny, a 17-year-old girl who receives a letter in a blue envelope from beloved her aunt. Johnson is a resident of New York City.ġ3 Little Blue Envelopes is the first book in Little Blue Envelope series by Maureen Johnson. To address this controversy, the school board did not remove the book from the library but instead placed it in a restricted part of the high school’s library. The author responded on her blog calling for transparency in the school system’s challenge process. Maureen’s book The Bermudez Triangle was challenged by a parent of a student in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Maureen Johnson’s debut novel The Key to the Golden Firebird was published in 2004. She studied both theatrical dramatically and writing at Columbia University where she graduated with an MFA in Writing. She was also the manager of Philadelphia Theater Company, a bartender in Piccadilly, a secretary, a waitress in a theme restaurant and a seasonal performer. In the short period between her graduate and undergraduate careers, Maureen worked in New York City and Philadelphia, London. Maureen was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and attended an all-girl Catholic high school and is a graduate of the University of Delaware. Maureen Johnson is an American author of literature and fiction novels famously known as the author of Suite Scarlett series and the Shades of London series.
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