Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

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Summary: Pants need to be handed down
Review: "Girls in Pants" is the third installment in Brashares' 'Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants' series. In this novel she demonstrates the fact that she knows her main characters inside and out, giving voice to the plights of teenage girls on the verge of adulthood. The third installment is a worthy addition to the prior novels.

Brashares' novels tell the story of four girlfriends, whose mothers were friends before their birth. Even though their mothers may have lost contact, the girls have remained friends through thick and thin. And they've seen and experienced enough trouble for more than double their lives. "Girls in Pants" finds them in the final summer before they embark for college, when they'll truly be apart for the first time in their lives. Once again, they pass the magical pants back and forth during the summer, always exactly when one girl needs them the most. While two of the girls face new and frightening experiences, the other two must encounter past problems and deal with the ghosts that haunt them.

Brashares crafts a good story. She has developed these characters consistently throughout all three novels, and takes their lives in different, but satisfying directions. Although an adult, she infuses their young voices with the wisdom of teenagers-on-the-cusp. Perhaps their stories are complete, but readers know that there will always be more summers for these magical pants and this diverse group of girls.

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Summary: Girls in Pants
Review: Girls in Pants is a fantastic 3rd installment in Ann Brashares series of 4 girlfriends, growing up in Bethseda, Maryland.
It's the last summer before Tibby, Carmen, Bridget and Lena head off to college and leave their "childhood" behind. The third summer of the sisterhood is just as good as the first two. Ann Brashares does a good job of mixing true girlfriend fun with some great life lessons. I hope there is more to follow~

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Summary: I won't be able to keep this on the shelves!
Review: How delightful. My library readers keep the other two books racing in and out at a record pace, and they are dying to get their hands on this one. Me first! Brashares has tied up all the girls' stories most satisfactorily, and without being a Pollyanna. Each of the girls remains a strong, fascinating individual who is lucky enough to belong to a mutually loving and supportive quartet of friends. These are the types of girls I want my high school girls reading about and learning from.

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Summary: Our Very Own Form Fitting Jeans
Review: I don't know what it is about the traveling pants. In someone else's hands the idea of...magical pants...would have been totally laughable and ridiculous. But of course, the thing about Ann Brashares is that she isn't writing about the pants, she's writing about the girls.
And how we love the girls. Something in the way they're written and the way they deal with themselves, the world, each other, and us makes us pour ourselves into them. It's like they're form fitted and molded for every one of us, just as the pants are for them. Brashares has crafted an unbelievably simple story; an easygoing tale about four lifelong friends. The plots are not utterly unbelievable or overly dramatic. They really could happen to us (...maybe). But somehow, Brashares manages to dig us out of the innane jealousy that teenagers get sometimes. We love Lenny, Bee, Tib, and Carma and their summers, together and apart, so much; we're utterly and completely immersed in their lives. Who didn't have an absolute fit when we find out what happens with Eric and Bee? Who's not in love with Brian? Who doesn't want to find out what happens with Lena and Paul? What on earth happened with Kostos? Who doesn't feel their pain at being split apart? I am never fully sated when I finish one of these books, it's almost depressing how when I finish one I go online to find news about the next one.
Yes, some aspects of the story are very ridiculous. I can't possibly believe that in the real world these four lively teenage girls would all be virgins, would never have never gotten drunk, never partied. The way Brashares prances around these topics afraid to get her hands dirty is somewhat grating. However, you have to take the story as it is, a coming of age tale with a happy ending and a good message about four extraordinary girls. These books manage to unearth the hidden dramas and the comedies they can become in our everyday lives. With these books we live, we learn, we laugh, and of course, we love.

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Summary: Best Sisterhood book!!!
Review: I got this book the day it came out and read it in two days. I couldn't put it down. The story gets good by page 30! The characters from the other two books come back with there same problems and new ones. The only bad part about the book was that it ended!

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Summary: Excellent, quick read!
Review: I love the Sisterhood series, and my friends and I pass them around, always anxious to get the book next. I loved this book, as did my friend! Easy 5 stars. Except, like another reviewer said, it is a bit unrealistic how every girl had everything going for them in the end... A bit unrealistic, yet still awesome.

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Summary: The Sisters are Back!
Review: I was so excited when this book came out. Being a fan of the first two I thought this one be just as good. It was not. The stories are much duller Bridget's story is the only one that is mildly interesting. The story I was most looking forward to reading was Lena's. I really wanted to see how things ended with her ex-boyfriend Kostos after the events of the second book. His name was only mentioned briefly in a couple chapters. I think this book had much more potential, but did not deliver. I read it quickly to see if the story picked up at all...it didn't. It wasn't the worst book I ever read, but I was defiantly disappointing.

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Summary: love it!!
Review: okay, im definately 15 and i absolutely love this book! the first 2 were SO good i pre ordered this one and its new favorite book. and im not like some teeny bopper or anything too, it was just SUCH a good book. i really think every girl should read it! it was entertaining, funny, sweet, and ahh just everything. i love it! READ IT!!!!!!