Teens who loved Ann Brashares's The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2001) will cheer its equally riveting sequel The Second Summer of the Sisterhood. As in the first novel, four teen girls who have known each other since birth (their moms shared a pregnancy aerobics class) further forge their bond of friendship through a pair of thrift-store jeans that magically, impossibly, fits them all perfectly.

Like the summer before, Carmen, Bridget, Tibby, and Lena share their individual adventures with the Pants collective, creating an engaging, kaleidoscopic narrative of four voices. This summer, Tibby attends a film program in Virginia and Bridget (Bee), whose mother has died, impulsively jets off to Alabama to get reacquainted with her estranged grandmother. Lovely Lena tries to protect herself from the heartbreak of loving her long-distance Greek god boyfriend Kostos, and Carmen deals (poorly) with her mother dating again and having the nerve to borrow the Pants!

Friends, Boys, Sports...it's all here

I read both The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and The Second Summer of the Sisterhood about a million times each! Both were awesome and some of the situations normal everyday girls could relate to. I would definately recommend The Second Summer of the Sisterhood because it gives valuable lessons that can be used in everyone's life. It also has things that would interest almost anyone: aports, boys, and gossip.

The sisterhood is back and better than ever!

After reading the first in this series, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, I was blown away. I thought to myself I must read more and ran to my local library to check it out. The intense emotion of this book captures each girls painfull situation. As the four girl set out on journeys in which their ultimate goal, which is not explained yet obvious, is to find themselves.

Carmen: Stuck in a situation in which she feels her and her single mother are growing apart because of her mothers new boyfriend; learns the right thing to do is to make others happy before yourself.

Bridget: Sets off to Alabama to her home that she lived in untill she was seven to learn more about her dead mother. While she is there Bridget uses a fake name, Gilda, and finds her old sporty self inside of her tired lumpy depressed new body.

Tibby: Goes to film school in Virginia and discovers how much the quality of friendship matters verse a friendship only for popularity. There Tibby also loses her fear of keeping her sadness from the death of her 12 year old best friend Bailey locked up inside her.

Lena: Breaks up with Kostos through letters then realizes how much she loves him. When Kostos comes to see her they get back togther again and get very close to having sex, although they do not. When Kostos leaves to Greece withought an explination Lena is depressed. Then she learns that after Kostos and Lena had breaken up, Kostos had dated a woman and had sex with her and he now carries her child so he is obligated to marry her. Lena also learns that the road to recovering from a break-up is a bumpy one but you have to move on.

one word- wow

A truly amazing, and unforgettable book-

With a bit from last summer, the four girls again made me laugh and cry out loud. Bonded by a pair of cheap jeans, Carmen, Tibby, Bridget, and Lena share their experiences, conflicts, and emotions throughout the whole summer.

What was amazing was that Ann Brashares's way of writing was different and brought everything alive and vivid. The entire book was not so formatted and restricted on any form of writing style. Her writing made the reader, or at least I, feel easy and extremely comfortable. The book seemed as if it was "talking", and the story presented itself in a very casual way. Every detail, every little story, every message the four girls wrote, every little quote all came alive.

Each of the four girls differed in race, had their own unique personalities, and different problems, yet they connection so perfectly well together. The four girls were not only fictional characters in a fiction teen novel but lovable and realistic girls. Ann Brashares remarkably created the characters to seem so real and easy to relate to. Their problems, issues, and conflicts were all so real lifelike that it may happen to any average person, possibly even you or me.

When I first started to read this book, honestly, it was only because we had to find a book to read for a class. However, I couldn't stop myself from reading straight through when I laid my hands on the book. Not only did the interesting quotes from every chapter made the book interesting but also the author's ability. Ann Brashares is beyond doubt an incredible writer. This book is heart warming and, as I mentioned earlier, made me both laugh and cry out loud. In addition, I've learned a lot from this book, and most importantly as Ann Brashares had said, "Love your pals, and love yourself." The Second Summer of the Sisterhood touched me, and will stay with me perhaps, forever.

I strongly suggest this book to not only all teenage girls out there, but also to anyone (regarding both genders) who is up for a story that may possibly remain forever in one's heart.