I read 13 Little Blue Envelopes sometime during high school--I can't quite remember when. And I loved it. I pushed it on my friends. I sought out other books by the author. The other books were also amazing ( The Bermudez Triangle , Suite Scarlett , The Key to the Golden Firebird ). Then I started following Johnson on twitter, and oh my gosh, a whole new world. Maureen Johnson is an incredible person. She's witty and hilarious and just generally over all wonderful. She seems to have a lot of bad things happen (She's been in and out of the hospital for like a year including the same surgery two times), but she's delightfully optimistic about it all. It's occasionally hard to tell if she's actually optimistic or if her sense of humor is so sarcastic that it's actually a whole new level, but she usually seems genuine about her bright outlook. Her first book was published in 2004, and since then she's had eleven books published so-far as well as ...