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=The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants=

**SUMMARY REVIEW**
In the first novel in the series, we are introduced to four high school students, Lena Kaligaris, Tibby Rollins, Bridget Vreeland, and Carmen Lowell, who have been best friends "since birth" (their mothers attended prenatal exercise classes together). The summer before their junior year of high school, Carmen finds a pair of old jeans that fits each of them perfectly despite their different sizes, convincing the girls that the pants are special. They share the "traveling pants" among themselves over the summer while they are separated.

**AUTHOR BIO**
Ann Brashares grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland with her three brothers and attended a Quaker school in the DC area called Sidwell Friends. She studied Philosophy at Barnard College, part of Columbia University in New York City. Expecting to continue studying philosophy in graduate school, Ann took a year off after college to work as an editor, hoping to save money for school. Loving her job, she never went to graduate school, and instead, remained in New York City and worked as an editor for many years. Ann made the transition from editor to full-time writer with her first novel, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Brashares and her husband, 42-year-old portrait painter Jacob Collins, live in a four-story building in the East 60s in New York with their three children, Susannah, Nate and Sam, who range in age from about 5 to 11.

**OTHER CHILDREN'S LITERATURE**
Linus Torvalds, Software Rebel Steve Jobs Thinks Different The Second Summer of the Sisterhood Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Siterhood Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood The Last Summer ( of You and Me) 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows My Name is Memory Sisterhood Everlasting

**AWARDS**
WINNER 2002 - ALA Best Books for Young Adults WINNER 2004 - Indiana Young Hoosier Award WINNER 2003 - Iowa Children's Choice Award WINNER 2002 - Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Award WINNER 2003 - Missouri Gateway Readers Award WINNER 2004 - New Jersey Garden State Teen Book Award WINNER 2002 - Rhode Island Children's Book Award WINNER 2003 - Tennessee Volunteer State Book Master List WINNER 2002 - Texas TAYSHAS High School Reading List WINNER 2003 - Washington Evergreen Young Adult Book Award WINNER 2004 - Pacific Northwest Young Readers Choice Award

**HISTORICAL CONTEXT**
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants started a teen revolution focusing on the love of friendship and sisterhood. The series sparked a movie franchised staring popular teen-soap actresses; America Ferrera, Alexis Bledel, Blake Lively, Amber Tamblyn

**MAJOR THEMES**
The importance of friendship Search for love Difficulties of growing up Symbol

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