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Summary: awesome, fun, exciting, romantic, sad, funny, beautiful!!!!
Review: This is the story of best friends Lena, Carmen, Bridget, and Tibby. Just before their first summer apart, they discover the Pants. The Pants are magical in many ways. The girls decide to trade them throughout the summer, so in a way they can still be together. This book covers the beautiful, exciting, confusing, romantic, and sad happenings on each girl's vacation and her time with the Pants.
I was in love with this book right away. At first, the characters seemed... different. Like Lena, she's not a people person. Neither is Tibby. But after 3 or 4 chapters, I was glued to the girls. I felt like they were my best friends. I was really excited to know what happened next in their stories. Anyway, this would be a great book for anyone between the age of 12 to 16. It's wonderful. The book was very well- written in my opinion, and taught a LOT of lessons about life, without being annoying at all! I think the best and most important one was, embrace life, and tell it that you love it, and enjoy it while it lasts.
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Summary: Sweeet. Dude! Sweet. Dude. Sweet. Dude.
Review: GREAT! It entertained me the whole way up to Lake Tahoe. These four girls are totally different, and its sometimes hard to imagine that they're even friends. But they all have one thing in common: imperfection. None of them seem smart - or even likeable - at first, (you're always screaming, "Ahh I can't believe she did that! How stupid..I saw that coming!" to the characters) but in the end, they're all able to overcome mistaken judgements and learn from their mistakes. . . . yeah, duh, it has a happy *and surprisingly touching* ending. The idea of magical pants, Eric the steamy soccer coach, and Kastas the cute Greek guy, don't hurt either. This isn't some adult's interpretation of us, its the real thing.
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Summary: This Book Is A Must-Read Page Turner!
Review: This book is about 4 15 year old girls, Carmen, Lena, Bridget and Tibby. While at a thrift shop, Carmen picks up a pair of pant for ... and decides that it's a great bargain. While their all packing up to go places (except Tibby, who has to stay and work at Wallmans), Tibby asks Carmen for the pants. So she tries them on, and she loves them but tells Lena to try them on to. All 4 girls are so physically different, you'd think the pants would only fit on girl. But, as it turns out, they fit every girl. The pants get passed around over the summer, because each girl says that the pants make them feel beautiful and self-confident. Each experiences a great adventure along the way and I recommend this book to EVERYONE!-tigerskittles, 11 years old :D
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Summary: I Totally Recomend This Book!!
Review: This story is narrated by four girls who are spending their first summer apart. True to the title, the girls form a sisterhood, using a pair of pants that miraculously fit all of their builds to symbolize their friendship. Their numerous letters back and forth, and the Traveling Pants that they share throughout the summer, tie their four different experiences together. Each of the four girls, Lena, Tibby, Carmen, and Bridget, have very different summer experiences. Bridget spends the summer at a soccer camp in Baja, California where she finds herself in over her head with an older counselor. Lena goes to Greece with her younger sister to visit her grandparents and, with the help of the Pants, is able to overcome her cowardliness. Tibby is left at home, working at Wallman's for minimum wage, where she meets a younger girl who, Tibby finds, has more courage then anyone she knows. Carmen has a perfect summer with her father planned out, but when she arrives at his home, she is surprised by the new family he has acquired. As a result of the style that Brashares wrote the story in, the reader is always left hanging. The narration skips around, depending on who has the Pants, and to whom letters are being written. One paragraph may be with Lena in Greece, and then the next paragraph is all the way across the country in Baja, California. The unpredictable style in which the story skips from character to character hooks the reader. Through the letters written back and forth, the reader is able to learn pieces of other stories, while only focusing on one of the girls at a time. This helps the four stories to blend together, and allows the reader to follow each girl's summer at the same time. While focusing on one girl, there are only pieces of what happens to the other three shown. This creates suspense. The reader craves to know what is going on in the other girls' lives and cannot put the book down until they find out.
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Summary: An okay book
Review: This is a pretty good book. I gave it four stars because you can't give it a half star (if you could, it would have gotten 3 1/2 from me). I read this book in about 2 days because the pages are small and the margins are big. It's not the kind of book that you can't put down because you just HAVE to know whats going to happen next. It's just the sort of book you just read. You know, you just read it because it's there. There is nothing wrong with the story but it is sometimes a little shallow, and others a little too deep. The author tries to protray the girls as different, but if you really look...they're all the same. They mostly all have the same types of families (minus Bridget), and the same body types (minus Carmen), and the same feelings. Even though the way they spend their summers are all different, they seem like they're the same because they all have something to learn from the summer, they all have a love interest (Carmen, sort of...) and they are all dealing with their crazy surroundings. I think Tibby learns the most from the summer, and she is probably my favorite charater (except for the whole ignore Bailey while she could be dying thing). Overall, it's just another teen book.
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Summary: Good story, badly written
Review: While this book has a great theme that is creative and thoughtful, the way it is written cuts the whole book down. Brashares needs to go back to school and take English again.
The characters are so incredibly bland, it felt like this book was practically written by a 6th grader. The only character that seemed real was Bailey. The other four girls were all too surreal and perfect, they seemed to blend into one character, one girl. The entire book seems like some fantasy Brashares dreamed about and decided to write a book about all the girls she wished she could be. The dialogue between the characters has absolutely no distinction at all. They were all too alike and got along all too well. The author desperately tries to differ the characters, but it seems like some bad teenage soap opera. Any drama in the book seemed like it was written without any experience, i.e. it was completely unrealistic and unbelievable. It is no surprise this is Brashares first novel. Perhaps if another author who had any original talent could have made this good plot into a good novel. Brashares seems to think teenage girls can only handle so much 5th grade level vocabulary and problems. Unfortunately it seems Brashares is bound to become another teen-fantasy-soap-opera author, lost among the others. Read a book by a REAl woman with some REAL experience and some REAL talent. White Oleander by Janet Fitch for example.
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Summary: Absolutely outstanding
Review: I received this book as a gift for Christmas, and instantly, eyeing the title, I was a little wary. However, I have to say, this was one of the most outstanding and well-written books I have ever had the privilege of reading. The plot was very well developed and interesting... I opened it the morning of December 25, and was finished with it at one a.m. December 26. It was really that good. I couldn't put it down! The characters were so real to me, and the emotions so genuine, I felt as if they were right in the room with me. As a sixteen-year-old girl, I could more than relate to almost everything that the four friends were going through. It was real, honest, and absolutely outstanding. I more than recommend it to anyone, and would buy a sequel, or another book by Ms. Brashares, in a heartbeat!
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Summary: AWESOME!
Review: this book was SSOOO good! i'm 14 and i loved it so much. i started reading it and finished it in 1 day. it's so interseting how there's like 4 stories but they all are connected through these pants...sort of like the book I Stay Near You. anyways the book rocked! and the little quotes were really cool too. the characters seemed so real, not like made up people, you know? well i thought the book was so good...
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Summary: What an awesome book!!!
Review: When I first received this book from my aunt as a christmas gift, I was reluctant to read it, because it sounded weird, and possibly boring. But I read the first few pages of the epilogue, and from there I literally could not put this novel down!!!!!! It is probably the best book I have ever read, and I would reccommend it to any teen who wants to read a story of love, hate, drama, and humor. I can sympathize with many of the girls in this story, especially Tibby! I hope there's a sequel!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: This was so great!
Review: Nomally for my birthday my grandparents tend to give me books. Every year i get at least two new books and generally they are a pretty good read. But this year i got this book. The sisterhood of the traviling pants. Right away i was interested just from the reading the back cover. So after a few days i started to read it. Just a little on the side from my school book. I was about half way through it when i decided to read it for my next school book project. I was drawn in! I felt as though i wasa personally conncecting with each of the characters. So when i finished it i really wanted to know what happened next! I didnt really care for the epilog i thought it didnt quite fit the rest of the book. So for my project i re-wrote it. This is such an amazing book! I apsolutly love it!! I really hope that there is a sequal so i can find out what Lena.Briget,Tibby,and CArmen are all doing in there next summer with The Pants!! Thank you gramma and grandpa for giving me the book!! I really enjoyed it. Any other girl my age ... would to!
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