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Summary: A can't -put-down book
Review: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants was an awesome book. It tells about how four best friends live without each other all throughout the summer for the very first time. It tells about their summer apart and what they do. Carmen goes to a bargain store and buys a pair of clearance jeans because they look like they need to be worn. Tibby, Bridget,and Lena also try them on and the jeans fit every single one of the girls perfectly. So for Carmen,Tibby,Lena,and Bridget's first summer away from each other they that each of them will get the pants for a certain amount of time and then the pants to a different friend. That way they would always have a part of each other when they were wearing the pants, but they write a set of rules for the pants. For example, rule number one is that they must never wash the pants. For the summer,Lena goes to Greece to meet her Grandparents for the first time. She also meets a boy named Kostos, who has a crush on her and then the crush reverses and she likes Kostos. Carmen wore the traveling pantsto see her dad she hardly ever sees because her parents are divorced and she is suprised by how much he has changed. Tibby who stayed home while all her friends were on vacation, makes a new friend and learns not to judge people before you get to know them. Bridget goes away to an all girls soccer camp in Baja, California, but the coaches aren't all girls. She falls in love with a coach and to see what happens next to all these girls, you'll have to read this awesome book about friendship!
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Summary: " An OK book about friendship"
Review: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants was a very good book about a group of girls that are best friends and have been for almost all their life. This summer the girls are going different places and are afriad that they all might grow apart from each other, but they are kept together by a pair of jeans that seem to fit everyone just right. Throughout the summer, and all their problems, the traveling pants get to be sharred by every girl, so they all good wear them at least once. Along with the pants, came a list of rules you have to follow, like each time they sent the pants to a differnt girl they had to write a letter, and you also could not wash the pants. They hope by the end of the summer they all will still be the best of friends. This book was exciting and interesting, but at times it just gets a little boring because it talked about the same topic for such a long time. Otherwise it is a pretty good book about friendship.
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Summary: Cute Idea, Didn't Entierly Cut It
Review: A cute plot, interesting charecters... but it just didn't quite add up.
My favorite little subplot was Tibby and Bailey's, and Bridget's. Lena's was pretty dull, as was Carmen's.
I think the book dealt with death very well. It was a little predictable, but I was still surprised.
In Bridget's scenario, I think they should have gone on into more detail. We never find out exactly what happens between her and Eric.
Overall, this was a cute story, though mostly fluff. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone under the age of 10 or 11, if even them.
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Summary: The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants ROCKS!!
Review: Another one of the best books I have laid my eyes on. This is a terrific book, and many teens will be able to relate to this. It is very well-written and fun to read.When Carmen finds a pair of old jeans at the thrift shop, she buys them for really no reason, but mostly because of the three dollar price. One day when her friends Lena, Tibby, and Bridget are over, Tibby spots the pants and tries them on. They fit her perfectly, and then Bridget, Lena, and Carmen try them on and they find that they fit perfectly. They decide that each girl will have the pants for at least a week during summer vacation and they come up with a set of rules to govern the use of the pants. Lena was the first to have them, then Tibby, then Bridget, and then Carmen. Lena goes off to Greece with her sister where she meets her relative Kostos, a boy she really dosn't like at first. Tibby stays at home, working at Wallmans with nothing interesting really going on untill one day she meets Bailey, a twelve-year old girl. Bridget is off to soccer camp in Baja California, where she falls in love with the coach who is about six years older then her. And Carmen goes to visit her dad, only to find that he has a whole new family that he had never told her about before. The story follows the vacations of the girls while they have the pants. I liked the ending. This was a fantastic book. Ann Brashares' story idea was creative and original. I am eagerly anticipating the next book, The Summer of The Sisterhood, to come out.
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Summary: Books Should Be RATED Like Movies
Review: I am a parent and teacher and although I enjoyed this book it is not appropriate in the young reader section. It was a bit sexually explicit for young readers, and the parents have no idea!
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Summary: First loves & real lives; sweetly, lyrically retold...
Review: This audiobook was utterly captivating! Goethals steals the show here, turning in an amazingly mature range of stunning performances: young women, old men, and everything in between, on a whirlwind tour of Greece, Baja California, and many destinations in between. Brashares' original story doesn't hurt things either -- it captures just the right mix of teenage angst and real-world bittersweetness. And the sheer magic of the pants! This would make a great gift for any teen on your list, or just for yourself. I wish this book had been around when I was a teenager, but being a grown-up now has its privileges: I can listen to this audiobook again and again while driving...and I don't need to ask permission to use the car!
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Summary: Wonderful title, pitiful book
Review: "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" is a brilliant title. It's unusual, it's an attention-grabber, and it opens up all sorts of possibilities about what one might find inside the book. Unfortunately, what's inside the book is collection of worn-out cliches and contrivances, drawn from after-school specials and teen soaps. A snappy Prologue, told in the first person, describes the discovery of the Pants and the development of the rules of how they're to be worn, treated, and passed along. After the Prologue, however, the first-person narrative is abandoned and the Pants become an insignificant spectator to the action. And the action is boring and predictable from the moment the four girls go their several ways for the summer: Lena stays with relatives in Greece and meets the devastatingly handsome Neighboring Boy, whom she first dislikes, and later grows to admire. Their relationship is entirely formulaic, right up to the matchmaking grandmother and the embarassing Artemis/Acteon incident. Anyone with half a brain could see Carmen's predicament coming a mile away. She goes to visit her father, expecting to have him all to herself - and promptly meets his new live-in fiancee, who has two teenage children of her own. Tibby's segments are frought with stereotype. The depressing nature of her summer job is so exaggerated it becomes ridiculous, and impossible to take seriously. Nor is there anything new with the Brave Dying Girl Who Gives Her A New Outlook On Life, or the Pimpled Video-Game Whiz. Bridget arrives at soccer camp, and almost immediately decides have sexual intercourse with a hot, twenty-something coach - who puts up very little resistance. Unfortunately, the book spends so much time building up the seduction that there's little room at all for the consequences of their affair. The more I read this book, the less I enjoyed it. What interesting bits it does have - Bridget's priamry coach who keeps penalizing her for playing well, Lena's tentative relationship with her enigmatic grandfather, even the Traveling Pants themselves - are kept on the sidelines while formula and stereotype are given full play. I found the characters so unbelievable that I couldn't sympathise with any them; I found the situations so predictable and contrived I wasn't interested in reading what happened next. If only the book itself could have been as clever as its title.
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Summary: Great Life Lessons
Review: I read The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants to see if it would be a good gift for my two nieces at Christmas (age 13 and 15) and found that I couldn't put it down. This is a story about belonging to a group of friends who truly care about each other, something we all wish we had growing up and pray our children will find. Each girl has her own struggle to deal with during this summer of the "magic" blue jeans but it is their connection to each other and the simple knowledge that they have friends to fall back on that makes it such a magical story. I would especially like to applaud Brashares for dealing with one character's first sexual experience with such honesty and without sensationalism. Bridget is not some helpless or foolish child but a young woman who thinks she knows what she wants and then is overwhelmed by the intimacy of what she's gotten herself into. As an aunt I was glad to be able to have this story as a way to discuss all those raging teenage hormones and what giving yourself to another person can really mean. This was a fantastic book, not just for young adults but beware of recommending it to those under 13.
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Summary: grrrrrreat
Review: "never critize someone until you've walked a mile in their shoes, then when you critize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes"
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
i love that quote! this is a great book!
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Summary: Hmmm...welll....
Review: I'm not saying this book was bad, but I didn't find it THAT good either. Maybe I missed its charm when I read it and I need to read it again. It was a sweet story I'll admit it, but I felt it wasn't really aimed at teenagers...mayber 10-13?? I liked the characters but never really got close to them. When I get close to characters in a book, that means I really like the book and I ,personally, find it really good...but...maybe I just havta read it again~!!!! :D
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