Girls in Pants

As we draw to the end of our look at the Wonderful Literature of Ann Brashares I bring you the last Sisterhood book in the series so far (I hear there is going to be a fourth; we'll have to see.) This one is called Girls in Pants and is 352 pages. Once again it follows the summer of the four best friends, Lena, Carmen, Tibby and Bridget. But this time this is the last summer before they are splitting up and going to college. They made a rule that their colleges had to be up to 4 hours away from each other (or something like that.) Lena wants to go to Art School in Rhode Island--despite her parents' wishes, Carmen is going to go to Williams University, Tibby is going to NYC University, and Briget is going to Browns University. This summer is a very odd summer for the girls. Bridget returns to Soccer camp. But this time as a coach. And she sees a certain somebody there that she thought she would never see again. (You'll have to read it to find out.) And this summer Carmen is staying home and is taking care of Lena's grouchy Grandmother while her mother and her new step-dad prepare for the new little baby on the way. Tibby is in turmoil after her littler sister falls out of her bedroom window that she left open so she spends the summer being remorseful and trying to figure out her friend Brian, who may turn out to be more than just a friend. And Lena is taking art classes and is trying to persuade her parents into letting her go to the Art School. And all through this Lena gets a visitor herself. (Again read it to find out who it is) And through and through many other things happen. Most of which are not expected. The girls write letters and take turns (each girl gets one week at a time with their pants) and then mail the pants to each other. And at the end of their summer they will get together once more to document their time in the pants and have a putting-away-of the-pants ceremony until the next time they break them out. But I think anybody would benefit from this excellent piece of literature.

As you all know I LOVE LOVE LOVE this series. It is written brilliantly through the eyes of all four girls. Four story lines and four reasons to pick it up every day. I love all the girls. Ann Brashares paints beautiful pictures for you so you feel like you know the girls. This book sucks you in and you can't stop reading it because you are so attached to the characters. I am a combination of Lena and Bridget (I took a quiz and you should too; its pretty fun!) However I tend to like Tibby the best out of all the girls. I couldn't put this book down once I started to read it. I would recommend this book for girls over 12 through 99. Any girl would love this book, but some situations are not for littler girls so that's why I think 10/11 and up shouldn't read it. But It is an excellent book and gives readers a new love for books. I hope you liked my Ann Brashares in Look and I hope you go and pick this series up for your kids or for yourself. They would love it and so would you.

~BOOK-TASTIC~