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Girls in Pants
This book is a follow-up to the very popular Ann Brashares novels "Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants" and "The Second Summer of the Sisterhood." The book follows the four inseparable friends Tibby, Carmen, Lena, and Bridget during the summer before they head to college. The narrative shifts each chapter, following a different one of the girls, but only the prologue and epilogue are in first person. Bridget is at soccer camp in Pennsylvania, and r...
Sisterhood Everlasting
Ten years after their adventures with the Traveling Pants, Lena, Bridget, and Carmen cope with the loss of their friend Tibby. When Lena, Carmen, and Bridget receive plane tickets to meet their long-absent friend Tibby in Greece, they are ecstatic. Their excitement soon turns to fear and then anguish, however, when they arrive in Greece to find that Tibby has apparently drowned herself, leaving her friends letters to be opened on specific dates, which th...
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
Carmen, Lena, Tibby, and Bridget are four close friends who share a pair of jeans in order to feel connectected to each other during the summer. There is a conflict with each of the four girls. Carmen is having troubles with her dad's new family, and with her mom's new boyfriend. Carmen's stepsister, Krista, ran away from home and came to Carmen for help. Carmen's mom is dating this guy named David, and Carmen really hates him. She manages to bre...
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Literature)
Tibby, Lena, Bridget and Carmen are four girls who have been friends since before they were born- their mothers all took an aerobics class for pregnant women together and the four girls grew up in each others houses, backyards and lives. The beginning of this book is the first summer that the four friends are going to spend apart from each other- Lena is going to Greece with her family, Carmen is going to South Carolina to visit her Dad, Bridget is going...

Brashares booklist

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Science Fiction)
This is the story of magic pants that make little girls feel good about themselves. Really....
The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants
Best friends, Carmen, Tibby, Lena and Bridget have known each other since they were babies and they usually spend their summer vacations together. This summer, however (in the year they turn sixteen) the girls separate to have individual adventures. Before each girl leaves, they promise to keep in touch and they also make a pact regarding a pair of jeans that Tibby recently bought at a second hand shop. The jeans fit each girl perfectly, even though the...