The
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
By:
Ann Brashares
Hi everyone! My name is Kelsey Lanphere and like
many others who have posted to the blog, I am also a graduate student working
on my Master’s degree in Literacy at Nazareth College. I am currently certified to teach
kindergarten through ninth grade, but my real love is teaching grades K-2. When I heard that Ann Brashares
was one of the authors who will be attending TBF in May, I knew that I had to
tell other young adults about her books, specifically The
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,
which was my favorite book when I was a young adult.
I was first introduced to The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
when I was in sixth or seventh grade and I was immediately hooked by the story
of four best friends who are faced with spending their first summer apart from
each other. Due to the fact that
Carmen, Tibby, Lena and Bridget are practically inseparable during the school
year, they are not sure how they are going to deal with spending two months
apart from each other. What would
you do if you had to spend a whole summer apart from your closest friends? As fate would have it, the girls
unexpectedly stumble upon an old pair of jeans that proves to be the glue that keeps
them together throughout their summer apart.
With Lena traveling to visit her
grandparents in Greece, Bridget going to soccer camp in Mexico, Carmen going to
visit her father in South Carolina, and Tibby stuck at home with her younger
siblings in Bethesda, Maryland, it is not like the girls are simply a phone
call away from each other. To stay
connected, the girls decide that they will send the pants back and forth to each
other throughout their summer apart.
The pants then become appropriately nicknamed “the Traveling Pants” and
together the girls establish a list of rules that they must follow while
wearing the pants (one rule being that the pants can never be washed!).
Even though it is the Traveling
pants that help keep the girls connected throughout their first summer apart, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants tells
a much deeper story than just four friends who send a pair of jeans to each
other for two months. During this
summer, each of the four best friends experience some of the best moments and
some of the worst moments of their lives while wearing the pants. It is the strength that the girls get
from wearing the pants that allows them to face both the good and bad things
that the summer has in store for them.
Read this incredible story of
friendship to find out how a simple pair of jeans helps give four girls the
strength and encouragement that they need when they are not together. The best part about this book is that
it does not end after the first summer! There are three other books in this
series that continue to tell the story of Carmen, Tibby, Lena, and Bridget and
how their friendship is strengthened by the Traveling Pants. If you end up loving The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants as
much as I did, I know that you will not be able to stop after reading the first
book!
Sisterhood Books:
The Sisterhood of
the Traveling Pants
The Second Summer of
the Sisterhood
Girls in Pants: The
Third Summer of the Sisterhood
Forever in Blue: The
Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
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