The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants part 2

      Bridget, Carmen, Lena and Tibby are all best friends, but they had to spend their first summer without each other.  Throughout the summer all of the girls have very interesting and funny stories. Bridget it very athletic and loves to play soccer.  She goes to an eight week soccer camp in Florida. While she is there she gets a huge crush on a coach.  At her camp there is a strict no flirting rule, but Bridget continues to try to get the coach, Eric, to like her.  She does crazy things like swimming in the middle of the night, getting her friends in her cabin to go to a party, and waking up at 4:30 in the morning to do a 5:00 am run with Eric.

     Carmen goes to her dads house for the summer and is welcomed with an unpleasant surprise of finding out that her dad is getting married to a woman with too teenage kids.  Carmen does not like the woman or her kids and is disappointed that they are all blonde.  The woman and her daughter are very mean to Carmen and do not listen to anything she has to say.  Carmen is very angry at her dad and wants to run away.  

     Lena goes to visit her grandparents in a little village in Greece for the summer.  Everyone in the village wants her to go out with a boy named Kostos, but Lena thinks he is annoying.  One day Lena goes swimming in a pond and sees Kostos hiding behind a bush, watching her.  Lena gets really angry because she thinks Kostos was spying on her even though he just happened to be there.  In the end Lena has to decide her true feelings for Kostos.

     Tibby stays at home with her parents and her baby brother and sister. Tibby expects her summer to be really boring because all her friends are gone and all she has to do is work at Wallmans, the Walmart of her town.  One day while she was working at Wallmans a twelve year old girl faints.  Tibby comes with her to the hospital.  She finds out that the girls name is Bailey and that she has leukemia, a type of cancer.  Tibby and Bailey become great friends over the summer, and Tibby realizes she does not have to be with her best friends to have a good time.

     I recently finished The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.  It was a very good book, and you would really like it if you like stories about teenage girls.  I cannot wait to read the second book, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood.

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

This book is about four best friends and their first summer apart. The girls names are Lena, Tibby, Bridget and Carmen. They are really sad that they will not be spending their summer together, and on their last night as a group they find a pair of pants that seem to be magical. They look like boring, old fashioned jeans, but they look great on all of the girls even though they all look really different. Lena, Tibby, Bridget and Carmende decide that these magical pants will be the thing that connects them when they are apart over the summer. Lena would get the pants first for two weeks, then Tibby, Bridget and Carmen. All of the girls promised to take care of the pants and follow the rules that they made for the pants. Some of the rules were: "You must never wash the pants." and "Upon our reunion, you must follow the proper procedures for documenting your time in the pants: -On the left leg of the pants, write the most exciting place you have been while wearing the pants. -On the right leg of the pants, write the most important thing that has happened to you while wearing the pants." It is creative how the girls make sure that they do not lose contact with each other over the summer by having the pants be their connection.
Ever since I started this book I could not put it down. It is one of those books where something exciting is happening at all moments. Also, it is like four separate stories in one book and it is fun to see how they all connect at the beginning and end of the book.