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- Paperback: 304 pages ; Dimensions (in inches):
0.85 x 8.20 x 5.80
- Publisher: Delacorte Press; Reprint edition (March
11, 2003)
- ISBN: 0385730586
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Book Description
Carmen got the jeans at a thrift shop. They didn’t look
all that great; they were worn, dirty, and speckled with bleach. On the night
before she and her friends part for the summer, Carmen decides to toss them.
But Tibby says they’re great.
She’d love to have them.
Lena and Bridget also think they’re fabulous. Lena decides they should all
try them on. Whoever they fit best will get them. Nobody knows why, but the
pants fit everyone perfectly.
Even Carmen (who never thinks
she looks good in anything), thinks she looks good in the pants. Over a few
bags of cheese puffs they decide to form a sisterhood, and take the vow of
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants . . . the next morning, they say good-bye.
And now the journey of the
pants–and the most memorable summer of their lives–begins.
Amazon.com's Best of
2001
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
This is my new fave book!I am SO reading
the sequel!, April 20, 2003 Reviewer: A reader
This story is about 4 girls: Tibby, Bridget, Lena
and Carmen.
Carmen, Lena and Bridget are going away for the summer, so they spend their
last day in town together.
They find a pair of perfect pants and they create the Sisterhood.
From then on, all of them share the pants in the mail and tell& face their
problems in love, fam, friends and dead pets. But most of all, they help each
other get thru their troubles and live.
THIS IS A WONDERFUL BOOK. I AM READING THE SEQUEL.
This book was written from the heart and Ms. Brashares has done well.
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