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Twelve Envelopes: Open Wen All Four of You Are Here

Twelve Envelopes: Open Wen All Four of You Are Here

Mills, Kevin

Paperback

Young Adult Fiction

ISBN13: 9798165632280
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 26 2026
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Four kids. One unfinished boat. Twelve letters from a woman they never met.

Dez fixes things nobody asked him to fix, and everyone in Larkspur Cove expects him to turn out just like his father. Theo is the town's star pitcher, with a shoebox of sketchbooks no one has ever seen. June has a laminated schedule, a mother who has her future mapped out, and two hundred jokes she has never said out loud. Wren notices everything and says almost nothing.

None of them chose to spend the summer at the crumbling Arbor Boatworks. Then they pull back a tarp and find a half-built wooden sailboat, with an envelope pinned to its hull:

For the crew. Open when all four of you are here.

Before she died, boatbuilder Delphine Arbor hid twelve letters across town: inside a ship's compass, at the top of an abandoned lighthouse, beneath a bench, behind a wall covered in painted secrets. Each one asks a question none of them has ever been asked. Who were you before anyone told you who to be?

But the letters aren't the only thing she left behind. If the boat isn't finished and sailing by Labor Day, the boatworks will be torn down to make way for luxury condos. A storm is coming, a developer is watching, and the only person who knows the whole truth is the scarred, silent old man who sits on a bucket by the door.

Twelve Envelopes is a heartfelt coming-of-age adventure about friendship, courage, and the scripts other people hand us before we're old enough to say no, thank you. It's perfect for readers who love stories with heart, humor and a mystery to solve, and for anyone who has ever wondered whether they're allowed to be someone different.

Ages 12 and up.

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