Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

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Summary: Really Boring
Review: I read the first 30 or 40 pages and cound not go on because it was so boring. Maybe it might have gotten better, but I do not think that was going to be the case. I do not recomand this book.

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Summary: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Review: This book was excellent. You get to experince the lives of 4 friends,Lena, Tbby, Birdget and Carmen. All of the girls are completly differnt, but they have been friends forever. The pants brings all of their summers togther. They each fit in them a little differently, Like there friendship. This book tells a story of how they go through their whitty ,yet special friendships and a great journey of the heart.You got to laugh, cry and experince what the girls were feeling. This book tought so much. It tought you about loss,love, friendships, acceptance but most of all self-discovery. It made you feel like you were experincing it all.
This book was as good as they get. The way the author brought all of the friends summer together by the pants was great, it made the book unique. I rally enjoyed the authors story. She has made a impact on my life, so imagine what she could do to yours.

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Summary: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Review: Once upon a time there was a pair of ordinary blue jeans that sat alone in a Washington, D.C. thrift shop. A girl came by one day and bought them just to calm her urge to buy something that day. The girl took them home and threw them in her closet with no intentions of ever wearing them. One day she and her three best friends were hanging out in her room when they decided that they would each try the pants on. All of the girls were differently-proportioned and astounded at the fact that the pants flattered each of them perfectly. There was no doubt that the pants were magical. Since they were approaching their first summer apart from one another, they decided to share the Pants (which now had their own persona) in a special way. They made some clever little rules for how the Pants are to be treated and decided that after each person had them for a week, they would mail them to the next one in line. No one--not even the magical Traveling Pants--knew what kind of a summer it would be.

Meet the Septembers. Carmen, Lena, Bridget, and Tibby. They have been best friends ever since they were born--ever since BEFORE they were all born during one fateful September, in fact! This summer, Carmen is headed to South Carolina for her long-anticipated visit with her father. Lena and her sister Effie are off to Greece to visit their grandparents whom they have never met before. Bridget is going to a prestigious soccer camp in Southern California, and Tibby is doomed to staying at home working by herself in a local drug store. We see each of them in their separate states of affairs. They endure all the bliss, fury, longing, distrust, despair, loss, and love that the yarns of the Pants can hold.

It is very disappointing when you must peel yourself away from this adorable, honest, quirky novel for the day and you realize that you do not have a role in Tibby's "suckamentary," you are not athletic or courageous like Bridget, you do not have the cleverness and wit and spunk of Carmen, and you can't possibly be as beautiful as Lena sounds! In fact, none of them are real people, and it takes a moment to realize that--IF you have a reason good enough to put the book down. When the book ends, you feel both refreshed and cheated. It's like you have been torn away from your own best friends. It's definitely a book to buy and read over and over again. It makes you realize that your own life is NOT as hectic as you might think. I really hope Ann Brashares has more to come. She just can't leave us hanging!

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Summary: The Sisiterhood of the Traveling Pants
Review: The book The Sisiterhoood of the Traveling Pants was a remarkable book. It was extremely easy, but very exciting to read. I believe the reason that I liked this novel so much is because I am a teenager myself. The adventures of four teenagers Tibby, Lena, Carmen, Bridget and the pants is a realistic situation that I could relate to. Ann Brashares creatively kept me reading by basing her story around something as simple as the sophmore summer of four fifeteen year old girls. However, the item that kept me reading was that she incorporated the element of the " magical pants," in her story. For adults I am sure that reading this book would bring back many memories of their high school summers. Also Ann Brashares intrigues the reader by writing all four stories of the girl at once not one right after the other. I would recommend this book to teenagers and up. It is worth reading and letting your imagination go.

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Summary: Friends Forever
Review: Lena, Tibby, Carmen, and Bridget were all best friends dreading the summer they would have to spend apart. When summer came along they felt totally separated, since they were in all different parts of the world. The one thing that really kept them connected over that long period of time was a pair of magical pants which fit all of the girls' bodies perfectly even though they were all different sizes. The book is not just about these amazing pants; mainly it is about the four fifteen-year-old girls trying to survive the summer without each other. Lena, the artistic introvert brings the pants to her grandmother's house in Greece. Tibby, the rebel with an attitude, uses the pants in a documentary about her hometown where she stays over the summer. Carmen, the sassy girl, accompanies the pants to her father's new house in South Carolina, and she gets a few more surprises while she's there. Bridget, the athlete, who is always determined to get what she wants or who she wants in this case, brings the pants to Baja, California to her soccer camp. The pants travel to all of these different places and witnesses many different events that happen to the girls throughout the summer.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Ann Brashares, uses stories that could happen in real life, except for the magical pants of course, to capture the audience and bring them into the book's intriguing plot. I myself can relate to the characters since I am also a fifteen-year-old girl. This book is Brashares' first novel and it definitely is a fantastic one. I enjoy the way Brashares goes from one character's story to the next one. She never leaves the reader confused about which girl she is telling the story about at that point in the book. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants leaves the reader in awe about how these girls can go through so much without each other and the friendship bond between them is stronger than ever after the summer is over. This book is very realistic according to teenage girls and I definitely recommend this book to them. The teenage girls who read this book can find something to relate to in this book no matter what.

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Summary: It's the only book i have ever read twice!
Review: This book was probably the best book that i have ever read. It's the only book i have ever been able to read twice! It was so good! I felt like i knew Lena, Carmen, Tibby, and Bridget.If you are a girl that's between the ages of 13 and 15 i know that you will love this book! Read it, or you're missing out!

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Summary: A four friends fable and fantastic read for teens of any age
Review: Take a classic formula (four friends), add a literary device (secondhand jeans that fit everyone perfectly), a few touches of pathos (dying friend, mother who commits suicide, father who acquires a fiancee without informing his daughter), romance (gorgeous Greek guy, adorable coach) and the result: a can't-put-down novel that will resonate with every teenaged girl lucky enough to wrest this book away from her mom.

Confession #1: I'm a few months past my teenaged years--in fact, I'm the mother of four including three teens, one of whom is the same age/species as the foursome--and I don't usually shop in the YA section. But this book appeals to all ages, though younger readers probably skimmed over some of the parts that I liked the best (the fact that the girls' moms met in a prenatal exercise class--hey, *I* was in a sisterhood of Septembers for many years).

The book has its flaws--plot points that never get resolved, plus a young leukemia patient who steals the show with profound insights and a philosophical outlook that are unfathomable coming from a 12-year-old. Too, the treatment of the girls is uneven--I loved feisty Carmen and cynical Tibby, wanted to smack gorgeous Lena (not because she was gorgeous), found Bridget too plasticly perfect--and some of the character transformations ring false. Lena's cross-country trip at the end of the book is a bit over-the-top.

But Brashares loves her girls, and she infuses their story with such passion and effervescent energy that the reader stays engaged. I stayed up late to finish this one--mostly because it was riveting, partly because I was afraid my daughter would abscond with it and I'd never see it again.

The concluding paragraphs suggest that Brashares is contemplating a sequel--I hope she goes for a whole series, and movie rights too.

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Summary: I feel like I've met four new best friends!
Review: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is an incredibly realistic account of 4 friends on summer break. I read this book in 48 hours- I seriously could not put it down, but then again never wanted it to end. I hope to hear more from Bridget, Lena, Carmen, and Tibby.

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Summary: The Best Teenage Book Out There
Review: I got this book for my birthday from my parents. i thought it was going to be just another boring, have to read school book, but it was nothing like that. I was amazed with all the detail. It was the best book I have ever read. I am doing a report for school on this book and can't figure out what part to read out of the book, because it was so good. It is great for any age. After I finished it my mom read it and loved it. It is a must read.

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Summary: wow
Review: i have ADD and i hated to read. i read really slowly and it was alot of work for me. but when my friend lent me "the sisterhood of the traveling pants", i finished it in roughly 2 days and as i closed the back cover at the end it was quite clear that this was one of the best books i have ever read.