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Little Blue Envelopes
by:
Maureen Johnson
The
story goes a little something like this. Seventeen year old Ginny
Blackstone receives a little blue envelope from her deceased Wander
lust filled aunt. Her aunt is very unreliable and not a good example
of how to live life. However she's decided to send her teen niece on
a trip traipsing through Europe. The parents are completely lacking
in this book. Normally I just shrug off the absent parents in YA
books but, this book has Ginny traveling with no extra money, no cell
phone, or communication with people from the US. She's to go with
only a backpack and these letters written with instructions to go do
random task while traveling through Europe. Two of them have Ginny
meeting random guys. She almost ends up in a date rape situation. She
gets mugged and eventually does get robbed of all her possessions.
She then has to call her aunts random “friend” to get help
getting back to England. Only to discover that her aunts art is now
worth tons of money.
1st
problem- No parental guidance for a seventeen year old.
2nd
she has to meet up with strange men she doesn't know and puts
herself in very unsafe situations.
3rd
problem- She starts doing these seemingly meaningful task only to
discover they have no meaning.
4th
stranger danger- The Author makes this into a cute romance but
doesn't think that this could inspire others to go on such adventures
which would be seriously dangerous.
The
sexual content of this book is very small. Ginny is a virgin and does
a little kissing. She does spend the night with a guy but nothing
sexual happens.
Violence
– is very low. She almost gets mugged, raped and she does get
robbed but it's glossed over very well.
This
book over all would have been better written as a college age
adventure with someone older and a little wiser.
I
give this book 3 out of 5 keys.
As
always happy reading... The Booker.
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