Ginny Blackstone is a completely average girl with a completely eccentric aunt. After years of living in an apartment in New York City, Aunt Tally disappears to Europe, sending the occasional postcard or letter. Then comes a letter from a person in England saying Aunt Tally has passed. The usual rituals are completed, and Aunt Tally is gone...that is, until three months later, when Ginny gets a random little blue envelope from her Aunt Tally telling her to pack only one backpack (with the exception of a guide book, and any modern technology) get a passport, anda plane ticket.
Before Ginny boards the plane, she is told to go to the 4th Noodle, the restaurant under Aunt Tally's old apartment, and pick up a package. Inside the package are 12 more little blue envelopes just like the first. As the story goes on, Ginny finds that she is to follow each envelope exactly as they say before she opens the next one. The envelopes lead her from England to Rome to Paris to Greece and back to England. Along the way she meets the people that Aunt Tally had made relationships with before she passed, and makes her own new relationships through the directions of the envelopes. And while Ginny is on this journey, not only does she find the joys of traveling, but she finds herself changing drastically along with each discovery, to a point where she can never go back.
~Bookluver~