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The Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares

The Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants

by Ann Brashares
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  • Sep 1, 2001, 304 pages
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  • Mar 2003, 203 pages
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Laura

i read from cover to cover in one sitting. it was fabulous and enlightening.
Emily

I loved it!
JESSIE

IT WAS AWSOME!!!!!!!!!
Jessi

As an English teacher, I'm always looking for new books to make reluctant readers pick up a book. _The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants_ has come to my rescue and has emerged as one of the top picks on my classroom library shelves! Many parents have communicated with me to let me know how refreshing it as been to see their daughters reading, and after reading it twice myself, I am glad to see how the girls have responded to the issues presented in the book. Long live this Sisterhood!
Joy Foy

   The last book I read is the Sisterhood of Traveling Pants, by Ann Brashares. This book was good read and I hope after reading this you will see how much I enjoyed it and go read it yourself.
   The sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is about one pair of jeans, four girls, and their adventures over the summer. Beautiful, sensitive Lena is going to Greece to spend the summer with her Grandparents. She has to deal with expressing her love and feeling things for people she’s never felt before. Athletic, determined Bridget is off the soccer camp in Baja, California. She falls head over heals for a forbidden love and will do anything it takes to get her man. Carmen, the hot-tempered Puerto Rican starts her summer thinking she will have her divorced father all to herself in South Carolina. As luck would have it, her adored father has a fiancée and Carmen finds the child in her trying to escape. Last but not least is Tibby, the rebel, spending her summer working as a slave for the neighborhood drug store called Wallman’s. Tibby meets a friend and although she is reluctant to start a relationship with this “annoying” 12-year-old, but they become friends and start a roller coaster summer together. One day the girls discover some old thrift shop jeans and magically even though the girls all have different body builds, the pants fit each girl perfectly, making them looks like supermodels. Since this is the first summer the girls will be apart the make a pact to keep them all untied by mailing the pants back and forth over the summer to each other wherever they are. Ten rules for “the pants” are established and so the story begins. This is a story of a sisterhood that leads each girl into healing confrontations with love and courage, dying and forgiveness.
   This is an exceptional realistic fictional book, a “cant put down” book. The characters make you feel like you’re right there as you fall deeper and deeper into their lives. It’s easy to relate to the characters because their ambitions are so genuine and true. I liked that the author describes the characters and let you connect with each girl and their very different personalities. I really enjoyed reading about the friendship aspect of the book and understood the significance of friendship Brashares was trying to pass on.
Alana Lewis

I think that the book was awesome! I loved it. I don't even like to read but once I got into this book I was up untill like 1 o'clock reading it. I loved it.

Mindy

This is a story of four friends coming of age, which I could really relate to. I was captivated by the characters and was unable to put down the book until I was done. Every one of my friends have read it, and we all agree that it is the greatest!!!
mariel

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is the GREATEST book i've ever read! All four characters have a different personality that makes each of their stories, and the whole story so entertaining!!!!!!!

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