The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares

The girls are smart, thoughtful, introspective, resourceful, creative, and flawed. She also has great love for many other characters for instance, the adults of the story are developed as full characters, especially the mothers.

Brashares manages this juggling act well. The author cuts from one narrative to the next neatly and cleanly and the reader has no trouble feeling part of these four lives. Like the style of the first book, the four stories of the four girls proceed at a fast clip, with their care for each other and the pants themselves connecting the four narratives. Lena has broken up with her boyfriend from last summer's trip to Greece, but Kostos appears unexpectedly on her doorstep and she is thrown back into the whirlpool of love. Carmen is at home angry with her mother for falling in love and doing her best to sabotage that relationship. Tibby is at a film camp at a local university, admiring a rather sophisticated fellow student and ashamed of her loyal friend Brian. Bridget is in the small Southern town where her mother grew up-she is hiding her identity and trying to get to know the woman who is her grandmother. The four are again separated and yet are constantly connected by e-mail, letters, and phone calls. Yes, the magical pants are still with them and are passed one to the other as the weeks pass by. To quote from the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, March 2003: Another summer and more adventures for the four friends-Bridget, Tibby, Carmen, and Lena-we met in the first book. (A companion to The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.) Random House, Delacorte. The second summer of the sisterhood.' Retrieved from

The second summer of the sisterhood.' The Free Library.

The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares