Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants / Second Summer of the Sisterhood / Girls in Pants (3 Book Set)

asked by fabio on November 17, 2006 11:45 AM

They were just a soft, ordinary pair of thrift-shop jeans until the four girls took turns trying them on--four girls, that is, who are close friends, about to be parted for the summer, with very different sizes and builds, not to mention backgrounds and personalities. Yet the pants settle on each girl's hips perfectly, making her look sexy and long-legged and feel confident as a teenager can feel. "These are magical Pants!" they realize, and so they make a pact to share them equally, to mail them back and forth over the summer from wherever they are. Beautiful, distant Lena is going to Greece to be with her grandparents; strong, athletic Bridget is off to soccer camp in Baja, California; hot-tempered Carmen plans to have her divorced father all to herself in South Carolina; and Tibby the rebel will be left at home to slave for minimum wage at Wallman's.

Over the summer the Pants come to represent the support of the sisterhood, but they also lead each girl into bruising and ultimately healing confrontations with love and courage, dying and forgiveness. Lena finds her identity in Greece and the courage not to reject love; Bridget gets in over her head with an older camp coach; Carmen finds her father ensconced with a new fiancée and family; and Tibby unwillingly takes on a filmmaking apprentice who is dying of leukemia. Each girl's story is distinct and engrossing, told in a brightly contemporary style. Like the Pants, the reader bounces back and forth among the four unfolding adventures, and the melange is spiced with letters and witty quotes. Ann Brashares has here created four captivating characters and seamlessly interwoven their stories for a young adult novel that is fresh and absorbing. (Ages 12 and older) --Patty Campbell

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This book was very insperational because it showed how four friends can survive through the summer not seeing each other. But the pair of pants did. As weird as it sounds yes a pair of pants kept them toogether while Lena was in Greese, Bridget was in Baja, Mexico for a soccer camp, Carmen was going to her dads, and Tibby stays at home and in her words she's going through a depression because she is lonely in Washington D.C. haing to work at Walmons. Bridget is a stronged-willed person. She is really good at soccer. Now Lena has a nice, self-confident, and beautiful young lady. Tibby is a big tom-boy and she is a really good director for movies. In the movie she meets this girl who has cancer and Tibby wasnt vry nice until she found out that. Then she started to relize not to care just for herself. On the other hand Carmen is a nice generous person. She has gone through some though times with her parents being divoriced. She ends up getting really disappionted person because her dad kept a huge secret from her. It was that he was engaged without even telling her. Those are just some of the fantastic things about this book. It really taught me how to go through tough times by not getting in a depression.It was a great book!!

reviewed by 78704 on November 19, 2006 9:19 AM

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When i started reading this book I reliezed that it was about friendship. This book can teach you how important friendship is and the twist it can have on your life when you and all your friends go to different places for the summer.How one pair of pants can reflect on four of the girls lifes, and one very sick girl. All the Magical things that happened to the girls when they wore the pants.They put things on the pants to remember what exactly hapopened to them on thatb exact day. This is a fantastic book and i would encourage any girl to read.

reviewed by maxwell on November 20, 2006 11:25 AM

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