The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares is 320 pages long and was published by Delacorte Press in 2001. This is a work of fiction designed for young adults. The book is about four young girls that met at the earliest stage in life and become best friends. This summer will be the first time that they are going to be away from each other. It will be a time in their lives that they do the most changing from who they were to who they will become. This novel is about friendship and growing up. Four girls from Bethesda, Maryland have grown up together through the years. They have shared good times and bad times together and have always been there for one another. Bridget is an excellent soccer player and she likes to take charge. Her mother suffered from depression and passed away. Lena is beautiful and a wonderful artist. Carmen is a writer, her parents are divorced and she lives with her mother. Tibby is the rebel.They will be spending their first summer apart from one another. As they each experience their own adventure, they will keep in touch by equally sharing a pair of secondhand jeans that somehow nicely fit all of them. The book is…show more content… She travels to South Carolina to visit her dad. To her surprise, her father is engaged to Lydia and has two stepchildren (Paul and Christa) all living with him in his new home. Lena is beautiful and shy. She travels to Greece to spend her summer with Papu and Ya-Ya, her grandparents. While in Santorini, she meets and falls in love with a handsome college student and fisherman. Unfortunately, the two feuding families happen to be against the young relationship. Bridget has an awkward relationship with her father ever since her mother passed away. She travels to Mexico to train at a girl’s soccer camp for the summer. Tibby stays home in Maryland to work on her documentary and also gets a job at a local store, that's where she meets Bailey Grafman, a young girl with
