Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

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Summary: A must read for all teenage girls
Review: This is one of my favorite books of all time and one every teenage girl should pick up at some time or another. Brashares skillfully weaves together the tale of 4 very different girls' adventures over one summer bringing them together by the means of a magical pair of pants representing their friendship. while the idea of the magical pair of pants may seem a bit farfetched to some, this story couldn't be more true to teenage life. Both humorous and heartwrenching, i enjoyed every page of this book. i especially enjoyed the quotes that appeared at the beginning of each chapter. i think every girl can relate to one of the characters in some way or another. I find it almost scary how much i can relate to Lena. My two best friends (who are a lot like Tibby and Carmen) also love this book and we've started our own sisterhood v. similar to the one in the book, which has made us even better friends.

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Summary: MUST READ FOR TEEN GIRLS OF ALL AGES
Review: This book is an incredible look into the lives of 4 teenage girls as they face issues of their own and help eachother work through them. This is the best book I have ever read and I, like many teenagers do not like to read and finished this book within the first week I had it and right after I finished it I bought the sequel which is also incredible. I CAN'T wait for the third!!

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Summary: Goethals a fine narrator for Brashares' Novels
Review: Critically acclaimed stage and screen actress Angela Goethals is probably the perfect choice as the narrator of Ann Brashares' novel "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants". Hers is a fine, eloquent voice replete with all of the necessary enthusiasm which teenage girls will adore. Anyone who has seen her in films such as "Home Alone" or "Jerry Maguire" will undoubtedly agree. She is quite simply among the latest of a great line of distinguished actors who are fellow alumni of Stuyvesant High School which goes as far back as James Cagney, and includes the likes of Ron Silver, Tim Robbins and Lucy Liu.

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Summary: not just for young adults!
Review: I'm happy to finally know about the traveling pants!!! Clever, funny and endearing story of four teenagers who share a pants of jeans one summer. Each leads a different path during the summer months and the pants follow each's dreams, wishes and hopes. Remarkable story to be listed in young adult but not feel like that genre. Very good and I look forward to the rest of the series.

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Summary: It started it all!!!
Review: I love this book!!! When I read the first page in the book, I couldn't stop! The sisterhood of the traveling pants had me glued into it!!! My parents would actually tell me to stop reading it!!! Weird huh?
The book tells how four very close friends spend their summer apart, but they're still together using one pair of pants to reach each other. I love this book so much! I read the second, and now I'm reading the third!!!

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Summary: "These are magic pants."
Review: "These are magic pants." Carmen Carmeena, Tibby Tomko, Lena Kaligaris, and Bridget Vreeland are the best of friends. They've spent every summer together since they were toddlers. But now, it'll be their first summer apart. Carmen will be with her dad in South Carolina, Lena will be in Greece with her grandparents, Bridget will be in Baja California at a soccer camp, and Tibby will stay in town working in store infamously known as Wallman's. But before everyone departed, they came upon an amazing pair of thrift shop jeans in the forgotten corner of Carmen's closet. For fun, they all try on the jeans, and incredibly, they fit perfectly on the four friends' hips! They decide that these magical pair of jeans will keep their close-knit friendship together. By sending the "Pants" to each other and mailing letters, they would still be together, no matter how distant they were.
Unlike many other books, the author, Ann Brashares, is very down-to-earth. She uses TV shows in her novel such as, Ricki Lake, Oprah, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and Jerry Springer. This also presents the fact that these situations are capable of happening in real life and is not some fantasy book where reality is just another term tossed around like a hot potato.
Another great aspect of this book is the feeling and description demonstrated. Every one of her main characters goes through inclement situations. Brashares channels through the hardships and delicacy of her characters in depth. To illustrate, one of the characters lost something she always had. Brashares put herself in that situation and dug deep to give the full affect of sorrow and loss.
One fascinating detail I found in this book was that Ann Brashares, used quotes and sayings to separate chapters, instead of using numbers. That really showed to me that she took the time to teach us, young adults, how her book affected our lives and other people's lives.
Teenage love was also incorporated in the book. Many adolescent girls have boyfriends and tend to fall for their crushes. Brashares definitely hits the mark for harsh rejection and continuous devotion at the same time. Her characters have a complex, deep adoration for their love. Yet each character was able to own her sense of weakness.
After reading this book, I found that with each girl's story there was a lesson. Carmen went to South Carolina to visit her divorced father, who she only visited two to three times a year. She was frustrated about an unexpected surprise, but in the end she learned about forgiveness and learning to start a new life. Lena discovered that love can reign over fearfulness and give you courage. Bridget found that if you want your goal, the key is to be patient. Even at Wallman's, Tibby discerned that no matter what troubles come in life, always "Keep playing."
All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. I appreciated the creativity, the sensitivity, the love, the explicitness and the well-presented morals. It gave me a sense of completeness and wholeness after reading it. I would recommend this fantastic page-turner to female teens everywhere.


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Summary: The sad and the Happy
Review: I loved this book! It was very cute. Follow Carmen, Bridget, Lena and Tiby overcome new obsticles with their 'magic pants'. It's a great story and was very fun to read!

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Summary: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Review: I love these books. Ann Brashares always manages to capture the exact feeling of being these four teenagers. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is one of those books I will always have on my shelf. It just invites you to curl up on a couch and read.

One fateful day, Carmen buys a pair of pants. Ordinary pants. And then, the day before they're about to separate for the summer, the four friends discover that the pants fit each of them equally well, turning them into complete babes. They decide to own the Pants equally, and begin the Sisterhood.

Lena: Travels to Greece with her family, where she meets the charming Kostos. She hopes to make a good escort for the Pants, but in a moment without any pants finds that the person she knows least of all is herself.

Tibby: The only one of the four left on the home front, Tibby plans to launch her filming career by creating a documentary on her hometown. But when she meets Bailey, a twelve year old with cancer, her plans are turned upside down.

Carmen: Invites the Pants along to her dad's home, hoping to get to know her divorced father. Instead, she finds that she has become invisible in a house of surprises.

Bridget: Barges into a soccer camp ready to take on the world--and the amazingly handsome Eric. However, the Pants show her something she didn't know: that she will have to come to terms with her past before making a conquest in love.