The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

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Summary: Brianne's review BMS literary corner
Review: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is a five star book that is very realistic and most girl could relate to it. Carmen, Lena, Bridget, and Tibby are the four main characters who spend their whole summers, for the first time, away in different places. Even though this book leaves you with a few unanswered questions they are not major and I personally like books that make you think. The author, Ann Brashares, did an amazing job describing each character. From her descriptions you get a vivid picture of the four girls. The "magical" pants that the girls share are supposed to keep them together while they are separated. Each girl learns a valuable lesson that none of them will ever forget for the rest of their lives. Not only is this novel filled with emotions, both happy and sad, but filled with excitement as well. I know you will love this novel and will never be able to put it down!

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Summary: The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants
Review: The book The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares takes you through the summer of four best friends who buy a pair of pants at a thrift store. When they take them home, they find that the pants fit all of the girls very well. They think it is magic because they fit all of them just right. This magical and thrilling tale takes you to Greece,California,there home town,and to one of the girls dads house and his home town. At one time Bee, one of the characters even travels into mexico. Although the book jumps from character to character it still tells a story that you can follow.
The four best friends are so close they are like sisters. All summer long they write back and forth, while sending the pants all over the world, to keep in touch. As one friend is whisked away to soccer camp in California and is having a wonderful time, another is trying to cope with a dying friend while trying to work her job at wallmans,and deal with there home town. As another friend is trying to deal with her father at his house, while learning that he has moved and getting married while she is there, and another friend is having the time of her life in greece.
Being such a different book unlike no other makes this book good for any age girls from 10 to 100. All girls should read this book. I feel this wonderful tale is a must read for anyone, and should be on everyone's list. This thrilling novel is exciting, finding out how the pants help and don't help the girls.

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Summary: Keeping Together the Apart
Review: A Review by Kamy

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is about four friends and a pair of "magical pants" that keep them together on their first summer apart. Four girls, Carmen, Lena, Tibby, and Bridget, discover the pants that they find out to be magical, in that when each person tried them on, the pants formed to fit each girl, despite their different sizes, as well as bring out each one's positive features. The girls then decide to form a Sisterhood with the pants and pass them around to each other throughout the summer, each leaving memorable experiences with the pants that will last for a lifetime.

This book does a great hob of illustrating a real life situation between four friends and their summer vacation. The author, Ann Brashares, does a great job of describing and bringing the characters to life, to the point that you're uplifted by their individual achievements, and you feel sorrow during their times of misery. Also, this book is, in a way, compiled of four different stories in one, because of the four girls continuing their lives in four different places around the world. Having a story set up in this structure can sometimes become confusing to the reader, but I believe that Brashares did a wonderful job in making all four stories meaningful, yet understandable.

I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys stories about things or situations they can relate to. I feel it's really open to anyone who fits the specification, but I believe that the book is more focused towards teenage girls, and would be especially enjoyed by them for this reason.

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Summary: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Review: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Ann Brashares, was a very inspiring story. It isn't just one of those teenage books that you think, "Hmm, that was good." It's one of those books that you will never forget; it will stay with you forever. It's about four totally different girls who are best friends, and their radical experiences over the summer. Bridget goes to Baja for soccer camp, and things happen to her that change her forever. Lena, who is determined not to fall in love, goes to Greece to visit her grandparents, and meets a boy who goes against everything she thought she wanted. Carmen who goes to visit her dad, expecting a great time, finds out something that makes her go crazy!! And Tibby is the only one stuck at home with an awful job, and annoying parents, until she meets a strange girl, dying of cancer, who turns her world upside down, showing her the meaning of life. The girls keep in touch with letters, and they each get turns with the pants that they found that seem to be magical. Whether or not they really are magical, they boost their self esteem. I guarantee that even if you hate reading, you would love this book, and enjoy all the fun twists, and awful turns! Also, if you liked this book, I recommend the second one, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood.

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Summary: READ THIS BOOK!!!
Review: I had heard good things about this book, so i was hoping that this book would be as good as the reviews said it was. It was!!! The Sisterhood of the traveling Pants follows 4 friends- Tibby, Carmen, Bridget, and Lena-on their 1st summer apart from eachother. On their last day together, they find a pair of pants in the back of Carmen's closet, and strangley they fit all 4 of the friends perfectly. The friends send the pair of pants back and forth all through the summer to one another so they all can wear them. Each friend has some sort of interesting adventure in them.

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is a interesting book that entertained me all the time, so i gave it 5 stars. It really was better than i thought it was. Buy this book because you will want to keep reading it over and over again. Buy this now!!!

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Summary: A great book for college students, too.
Review: This is a great book. I know it's written for high school students, but it hits on a lot of issues college students face, as well, without being too depressing. Also, it's a pretty easy and fun read, which is nice during the semester when you're using all your brainpower reading textbooks.

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Summary: Wild, Funny, and relatable
Review: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Anne Brashares is an awesome novel for teenage girls. It deals with many different issues such as friendship, love, dating, and death, from different personality perspectives. This book was about four girls Carmen, Tibby, Lena, and Bridget who shared an everlasting friendship. Lena was the quiet beautiful one who was shy and enjoyed to paint. As beautiful as she was she tried to hide her beauty because she did not like letting down her guard to people, she was scared to fall in love. Bridget and Lena were quiet the opposite of the bunch. Bridget was more of the athletic outgoing type of girl. She was always very determined, but she sometimes pushed herself too far, which was sometimes good and sometimes bad. Another one of the characters Tibby, had a personality that consisted of blocking people out and she was not very touchy feely. Tibby was also always relying on her friends for help. Lastly, Carmen, the drama queen who always made the worst out of almost every situation that came her way and was not very good at accepting change, started this whole wild summer adventure out by buying a pair of jeans from a thrift store that surprisingly fit all four girls well enough to make them all look good. These girls have been friends ever since their parents met at Gilda's, a work out center, when they were babies. Ever since that moment in time they had never been separated for a whole summer. Until the summer that was unlike all of the rest, when all of the girls went different places. Lena went to Greece to meet her Grandparents. There she met a boy named Kostos who she was tempted to fall in love with. Tibby is stuck at home working minimum wage at Wallmans. Still she found adventure by befriending a girl with Leukemia named Bailey who helps her break down her wall and show her caring side. Bridget went to soccer camp and faced many challenges which tested her character. Also she found that she had a crush on one of the soccer coaches, Eric. Lastly of the four is Carmen who went off to visit her dad, who she finds to be engaged. Before they all went on their journeys, they met at the place where it all started, and made up the sisterhood of the traveling pants. Which was a system of mailing the pants to each other after experiencing some time in them and also all four girls agreed that they would write letters to share their summer adventures. Each girl was able to experience new things on there own, but still kept hold onto there strong friendship.
The theme or the authors intentions of this book are that there maybe differences among people but you can still have a great friendship, because along the way you learn a lot about yourself and other people. Also I think she was trying to relate it to all readers by showing every day real life experiences. I would definitely recommend this to teenage girls but this is a great book for all readers. Anne Brashares made this book relatable for all ages and mainly she is showing the bond between people and their friendships which is an awesome topic for any one.

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Summary: Very suspensful and humerous!
Review: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is a very suspenseful book with humor in it. Ann Brashares creates four very realistic life long friends: the beautiful Lena, the sporty Bailey, the rebel Tibby, and the insecure Carmen. When Carmen buys a pair of jeans from a thrift store, a whole adventure begins on their first summer apart from each other. The four characters find out a little more about themselves throughout the summer with the help of the magical pair of pants which is shared within the four of them. Carmen has to survive with her divorced dad's new fiancé and family in south Carolina. Bailey is trying to get an older guy at her soccer camp. Lena is starting to find out what the word "love" means towards a boy in Greece, and Tibby is home by herself befriending a 12-year-old girl with leukemia. The four girls send the perfect pants to each other, keeping themselves in touch. The girl's summer is absorbed into the pants and is something that they all look forward to wearing. When wearing the pants, they feel confident, and as if they can solve all of their problems.
Brashare shows us how tough life can be, and how you can't always get what you want. I recommend this book to ages 12 and up. This a great book that all girls in their preteens and older should read. I loved it and I never wanted it to end because I can really relate to book and what happens in our everyday lives. You have got to get a copy!

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Summary: GREAT BOOK! suspensful and funny!
Review: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is a very suspenseful book with a little humor in it. Ann Brashares creates four very realistic life long friends: the beautiful Lena, the sporty Bailey, the rebel Tibby, and the insecure Carmen. When Carmen buys a pair of jeans from a thrift store, a whole adventure begins on their first summer apart from each other. The four characters find out a little more about themselves throughout the summer with the help of the magical pair of pants which is shared within the four of them. Brashare shows us how tough life can be, and how you can't always get what you want. I recommend this book to ages 12 and up. This is a very worth while book, and reader's will enjoy the descriptions and humor that Brashare has shared with us. It's a must read for all girls!

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Summary: The sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Review: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Delacorte Press, 2001, 294p.p.,
Ann Brashares $17.99 ISBN 0-385-72933-2

"Once upon a time there was a pair of pants. Just an ordinary pair of jeans. But these pants, the Traveling Pants, went on to do great things. This is the story of four friends who made it possible."
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is a story of four fifteen-year-old girls: Bridget, the athlete; Lena, the new-age Aphrodite; Tibby the rebel; and Carmen, the one with a horrible temper. They have been friends since before they were born(their mothers were best friends when they were pregnant). Now it's their first summer vacationing apart and they are apprehensive about what the summer will bring. One day they find a pair of thrift-store jeans that magically fit all of them despite their different shapes and sizes.
The Sisterhood uses the pants to keep in touch with one another. The pants go on exciting adventures to Greece, Mexico, Washington D.C., and South Carolina. The pants bring love, heartbreak, and hilarious, sometimes painful, challenges. The pants show Bridget that she needs to stop living life in the fast lane, while they also teach Lena how to see the truth. I joined the Sisterhood on their journeys to becoming women. I learned from their experiences which also made me grow.
I think Ann Brashares did an amazing job writing the Traveling Pants. She let me join the Sisterhood on their bravados, some which made me cry for joy, others that made my heart ache. The genre is fiction, but Ann made me feel as if I knew The Sisterhood. Someone who cherishes friends will love this book. It's safe to say that this book is one of the best of all times.
This is Ann's first novel. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and three children. She even has a pair of favorite jeans herself. Ann likes to recall memories from the girls' past and writes letters for the reader to make the reader feel as if the Sisterhood is alive. There is even a sequel called The Second Summer of Sisterhood, which I also feel in love with.
"Remember: pants = love. Love your pals. Love yourself."

-Alanna Kelly, Eighth Grade, Lyndon Pilot School, Boston, Massachusetts