13 Little Blue Envelopes(ending) by: Maureen Johnson

I have just finished 13 Little Blue Envelopes.  As you saw in my last blog post, the main character is Ginny.  She gets a package of letters from her runaway aunt Peg.  The letters lead her on an exciting adventure through Europe.  In each new place the letters take her, she meets lots of new people, and most of them she becomes good friends with.  The first person she meets is Richard, her aunt's old roommate.  Richard thinks he is very manly and is very proud of his job at Harrods (the store for everything you could think of).  The next person she meets is a man named Keith.  He is in a performing arts college, and was sent to New York to present the play he made up, Starbucks:the musical.  Ginny acquires a huge crush on Keith, but feels like she always messes up their romantic moments.  Keith shows up often throughout the book, and Ginny feels like fate means for them to be together.  Another group of interesting people are the Knapps.  The Knapps are a family that let Ginny stay in their hotel for five days because she could not find anywhere to stay.  The Knapp family is unbelievably organized.  Olivia, a girl around Ginny's age, arranges all of her things on her bed in perfect formation every day to make sure that no one uses them.  Every morning the Knapps wake up at 6:30 am, receive a schedule for the day from the parents, get ready, and are out the door by 7:00.  When they go sight-seeing, they are in awe for  10 seconds then run on to the next destination.  Finally Ginny leaves the Knapps and is surprised at how lazy everything else is compared to them.  The last group of people Ginny meets are five people taking a semester from college to go wherever they want to.  They welcome Ginny almost too much, and Ginny and Carrie, the only girl of the bunch, become good friends.  In the end, Ginny finds her aunt's last memories.  I think that this book as a unique and especially good ending, which summarizes all of the crazy things that the letters lead her to do, but realizes that all of the journey was worth it.