The Last Little Blue Envelope (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• Ginny Blackstone: See "Ginny Blackstone" earlier
• Aunt Peg: Ginny's aunt who is responsible for Ginny's adventures. While she was dying, she wrote her niece 13 letters and asked her to travel around Europe completing the tasks she had previously set for her. Ginny has always looked up to her aunt and admired her sense of fearlessness.
• Uncle Richard: See "Richard"
• Ginny Blackstone: The main character, a seventeen-year-old girl currently going through the college application process. Last year, her Aunt Peg sent her on a journey throughout Europe, completely changing her life. Now, her Aunt Peg has sent her into another journey, again through Europe.
• Oliver Davies: Attractive young man who tries to extort money from Ginny after he buys her stolen backpack in Greece and discovers the 13 little blue envelopes inside.
• Keith: Actor/playwright - a former "starving artist" that Ginny met while on her quest of the 13 Envelopes. He and Ginny are "kind of something" at the end of the first book, leaving their relationship largely open-ended.By the beginning of this book, Keith has a new girlfriend that he didn't tell Ginny about. He drives Ginny to France for Aunt Peg's project.
• Ellis: Keith's new girlfriend. Ginny doesn't want to like her but her bubbly personality and well-meaning makes it hard for Ginny to dislike her.
• Richard: Ginny's uncle, technically speaking. He married her Aunt Peg when she was dying, though he never knew how much Peg loved him until Ginny found the letters.
• Charlie: See the earlier "Charlie"
• Cecil Gage-Rathbone: One of the curators at the art gallery in London that handled Aunt Peg's art and helped Ginny sell her paintings.
• Peg: See "Aunt Peg"
• David: Keith's roommate
• Donal: An engineer in Ireland who tries to help out with Keith's disabled car but concludes that it can't be fixed
• James: Cecil's assistant at the London auction house
• Mari: Artist friend of Aunt Peg's who lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. She met Ginny while she was on her quest of the 13 Envelopes.
• Dr. Davies: Oliver's mom, lives in Guildford, England.
• Charlie: A friend of Aunt Peg's who has the window piece to the art project
• Mari Adams: See "Mari Adams" before
• Chloe: Mari's assistant, described as "part artist, part butler, and part bouncer."

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• “You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.”

  Ginny

• “Never say something can't be done. There's always a solution, even if it's weird.”

  Aunt Peg

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• You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it’s a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.

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• People always say they can’t do things, that they’re impossible. They just haven’t been creative enough. This pool is a triumph of imagination. That’s how you win at life, Gin. You have to imagine your way through. Never say something can’t be done. There’s always a solution, even if it’s weird.”

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• It’s always easier to say good-bye when you know it’s just a prelude to hello.

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• I think something is art when it is created with intention—serious intention. Even crazy intention. And I think something is beautiful if it reveals something important about what it means to be alive.

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• Everything was easier when you had a responsible adult with a fancy accent involved.

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• It is unique. It is theirs. It is beautiful. They have made something that has been made a million times before and has also never existed before that moment.

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• Horrible people should be horrible all the time. That should be the law.

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• Oliver drew his black coat tight around himself, leaned right into the guy’s face, and quietly said, “I’m Dumbledore.”

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• Anyone could have dripped paint all over a canvas. But Jasper Johns did, because he knew it was right. Anyone could have painted a can of soup. But Andy Warhol did, because he understood more about modern society than those people. Idea meets execution. Feeling becomes action.

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• That was, as Ginny remembered it, how America won the Revolution in the first place. The English walked around in bright red coats in straight lines and took breaks for tea, and the American just snuck around dressed in rags and hid in trees and stole their horses. Or something. Whatever. She had to do this—it was her birthright. It was what George Washington would have wanted.

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• Harrods: The biggest, baddest, most famous store in London.
• Foyles: It was a massive place, with a large urban-folksy coffee bar.
• Jerrlyn and Wise building: It looked like it was an old house built sometime around the 1800s.
• Les Petits Chiens: it is the cafe Aunt Peg designed in order to survive Paris. It means "The Little Dogs."
• Champs-Elysees: One of the grand boulevards in Paris.
• Arc de Triomphe: The massive white arch so large that a small place could be flown under it.
• A1: Just a highway.
• Ghent: The city proper in Belgium. It looks like a congregation of Cathedrals.
• House of Cats: A place where you can stay for the night but there are too many cats in the house.
• 60 Westerstraat: One of the non-canal streets, full of fairly modern buildings.
• De Bevlekte Pagina: It is a bookshop.
• Koekoeksklok: It means cuckoo clock in Dutch. It is a hostel.
• Rose of Delhi: It is an Indian restaurant with a dramatic flair.
• Guildford: It is a town just a few miles outside London.
• Elephant: It is located at the High Street of Guildford. It looks like a family restaurant or a coffee bar.

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Preceded by 13 Little Blue Envelopes.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Maureen Johnson (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. HarperTeen (Publisher)
2. Zareen Jaffery (Editor)

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• Books › Teens