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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants | 
 enlarge | Author: Ann Brashares
Creator: Angela Goethals
Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)
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Rating:  1013 reviews
Sales Rank: 985132
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 6.2 x 5.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0307243273
EAN: 9780307243270
ASIN: 0307243273
Publication Date: May 10, 2005
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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 fiancee 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
Product 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.
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 Enjoy October 10, 2008
Jorge Frid (Mexico City)
While reading this book you'll have a good time. It's not a thriller or a love story. Simply is a story.
 I want some magical pants!! September 26, 2008
Maxalie (wherever....whatever)
I have not seen the movie for this book, and didn't even know about this book until I heard that the movie came out for it. I chose not to see it and never read the book. I thought it looked dumb.
But, needing something new to read, I picked this book up last week even though I was feeling a bit skeptical. I had it read in two days.
I really, really enjoyed this book! Even though there are four individual stories, it's nicely told as one intertwined 'sisterhood' story with the traveling pants. Emotions go up and down through it all, but it had my emotions going up and down with it, watching as the 'sisters' each have their own discoveries about life and themselves and learning how to deal with them. I found myself reminiscing of my high school days/summers with my group of friends and it had me wishing we had magical pants of our own then.
I enjoyed this book so much, I have already picked up and read the second book and am ready for the third.
It's a fun book and I highly recommend it!
 Sisterhood September 25, 2008
E. K. Moseley (AZ USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
These are great books on friendship and girls. It is interesting that if these girls stay together they will be very close for 20 years. Great books. Good reading.
Very much a girl book September 25, 2008
Emily J. Taylor (Utah)
I read this in high school. Maybe I wouldn't feel the same way now, but as a high school girl I adored this book. Well, heck, then. I guess it's aimed at high school girls and that is why the book is as popular as it is. It's cheesy and horribly girly, but that is how it is supposed to be and why it left such a mark in my heart. It's a charming, heartfelt tale of friendship and discovery. Yes, we see them so often in YA literature, but I still couldn't help but love it. Throw in the semi-magical idea of pants that fit everyone and you have a mix of girl power sisterhood.
Jam-Packed With Action and Romance September 16, 2008
Grade Six
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Do you have a best friend? Do you have four? Have you known them since you were born? Most likely not. But Lena, Carmen, Bridget and Tibby have that going for them. Their mothers were in the same pregnancy class, and they were all born within two weeks of each other. Virtually, their friends were made for them. Even as their mothers grew apart, the four girls remained inseparable. Faced with the prospect of their first summer apart, they were a bit more nervous than they should have been. They had never been away from each other for two months before! Bridget was going to a soccer camp in Mexico, Lena to her grandparents in Greece, and Carmen was going to visit her father in South Carolina. Poor Tibby was staying home to work at Wallmann's. Coincidentally, a week or so before their trips, they find a pair of jeans that manages to fit all four of their very different body types. They feel it is a good omen, and become slightly less nervous. They plan to send the Pants to each girl for a week, and are dubbed the Traveling Pants. Many things happen that summer, like finding love, and meeting new friends. Will this last? Read The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants to see what happens.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is a book jam-packed with all sorts of action, romance, and some sad parts, too. With four different stories happening at the same time, there's never a slow part! The author, Ann Brashares, does a great job of describing her characters, and gives a real insight into some of the problems the girls face. Another interesting thing about this, and all three sequels, is that it tackles a lot of real-world problems, which makes it more serious and less sappy fiction for pre-teens. You should really try this book; it makes for a great, relatively easy read, plus you have three other equally magnificent books to read next!
Caroline M.
Grade 6
Ms. Kawatachi
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