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The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
by Ann Brashares
Book Reviewed by:Comment: Brashares returns to the beloved characters
she brought to life in her first novel, The
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, for a new installment that's
equally authentic and engaging.
I'm a big fan of the Sisterhood of the Traveling
Pants series (even though I'm a couple of decades older than the
intended target audience) and recommend the series to all teenage
girls, and to many teenage boys (if they have the courage to read
them!); but I also recommend the series to parents of teenage
girls. In our house, we're still in the pre-teen period that I
believe marketing types like to call the 'tweens', but I'm already
siphoning up information on teenagers, on the basis that the more I
'know' upfront the less likely it will be that I'll have to spend
the next 10 years 'coping' with teenage children, and the more time
we'll be able to spend enjoying each others company (dream
on!). Of course, there are endless books on every aspect of
the teenage years and I have read only a tiny fraction of
them. However, what I have read reminds me of that old adage
that the best way to learn is by doing. I can read endless books
telling me how to be a good parent, but the beauty of reading good
fiction is that you're not just reading about a situation but can
actually experience what it is like to be that person - thus, I feel
that reading the occasional book targeted at teens, about teens,
will get me as close as I'm ever going to get to understanding the
dynamics of teenagers (yes, you may laugh, but there's no harm
trying!)
I've been
holding off profiling this book (published in paperback in December)
as I was hoping to bring you an excerpt of the third book which was
published a few weeks ago, but unfortunately the publisher was
unable to give BookBrowse permission to reprint an excerpt.
However, I can tell you that Girls in Pants
is every bit as good as the first two!
This review
first ran in the February 2, 2005
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