Anna F-M. '10	Allie R '10	Chanda P. '11
Sarah A. '12

Reviewer:  Chanda P. '11
 

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares is about four girls Carmen, Tibby, Bridget, and Lena. They have been together since birth because their mothers took a class in aerobics for pregnant women together    

Carmen  buys a pair of jeans and leaves them in her closet. One day Tibby finds the jeans and tries them on. They fit perfectly. In fact the four girls each try on the pants and they fit each of them perfectly. The girls decide that these pants must be magical. For every summer as long as they can remember, the girls have been together, but this summer, Carmen is going to visit her father in South Carolina (Her mom and dad split up), Lena is going to see her grandparents in Greece, Bridget is going to soccer camp in Baja, California, and Tibby is staying home and has a summer job at Wallman's drug store. They decide that if they can't see each other in person than the pants can do it for them. The pants can be sent by air mail from Greece to South Carolina to Baja to Tibby back at home. The girls have come up with a set of rules that must strictly be obeyed while wearing the pants including the rule that the pants can be kept in one place for only a certain amount of time. Will the pants be enough to represent all of the four very different girls or will they need to see each other in person?
 

 Although this book was not fantasy which is what I enjoy, it was sooooo good. I couldn't stop laughing when I was reading this book. As well as a good plot, it was laugh out loud funny. I also liked the way that it grabbed the reader right away unlike some books where the first 50 or so pages are boring and then finally it gets interesting. I think that anyone who likes funny books would get the most out of this book.

Spring 2004