Ages 12 and up. Best buds Tibby, Carmen, Lena and Bridget are back with their magical pair of shared jeans in Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood. Each summer brings new and difficult challenges, as the perennially separated friends discover afresh this last season before college. Tibby struggles with the idea of close friend Brian becoming her boyfriend, and their fragile relationship is soon tested by a tragedy in her immediate family. Carmen doesn’t know how to react when she finds out that her middle-aged mom is pregnant, and Bridget is unpleasantly surprised to be reunited with the boy who broke her heart two summers ago. Finally, Lena, still coming to terms with the loss of her first love, tries to convince her strict father that art school is a better career path than Greek restaurant management. But through every crisis, each girl is assured of the love and support of the created sisterhood when she pulls on the denim armor of the cherished, and by now, a bit fragrant ("Rule # 1. You must never wash the Pants.") Traveling Pants.

A GREAT BOOK FOR YOUNG AN D OLD READERS!

I think this book is the best, it talks about many topics like divorice and a tragic loss we sometimes go through.My favorite character is Tibby. Mostly everyone likes Bridget but I prefer Tibby becase she has a personality that is most like mine. In the book Tibby goes through many changes like Brian wants more from Tibby.But Tibby doesn't want things to change.In the second book I always knew that Brian had a crush on Tibby for some reson. Bridget has a romance with Eric.I wondered what happened about Billy?
Lena gets over her first love Kostos and starts to move on.
Carmen is carmen she has grown and starting to become older and mature.

I loved this book and can't wait for the next one to come out.
It is great and i couldn't put it down at first i thought it was a dumb book about pants but then i knew the greatness of the book.

An admired reader who loves Ann Brashares books...................................
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Girls in Pants:The BEST Summer of the Sisterhood

I absolutly LOVED this book! I thought it was the best one out of the entire series!! There was so much going on at once, and it just made me keep reading on and on! If you read the first two books you should DEFINITLY read this one! It's great [nd so is the Movie :)]

Serviceable third installment

What can I say? I liked the novels enough to keep reading them and just finished the third one - but I never "loved" them.

Lots of good girl power stuff in this one per usual. The girls continue to grow and learn about themselves. Carmen in particular went from being a whiny baby in the first one to a young woman who started to really know herself.

I appreciated the fact that while a couple of them experienced first love (Lena and Bridget, and maybe Tibby) none of them were boy-crazy. Despite their human flaws, they seemed quite grounded.

I have to wonder if Brashares left the Lena/Kostos storyline ambivalent for a possible fourth installment. I would be interested to see how she plays that out.