Product Description

Can't wait for the next installment of the Pants? Check out the SPECIAL EDITION of The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, in stores now!
Inside you'll find an exclusive "Who's Your Soul Mate Quiz" and a sneak peak at the third book, Girls in Pants.

With a bit of last summer's sand in the pockets, the Traveling Pants and the Sisterhood that wears them embark on their 16th summer.

Bridget: Impulsively sets off for Alabama, wanting to both confront her demons about her family and avoid them all at once.

Lena: Spends a blissful week with Kostos, making the unexplainable silence that follows his visit even more painful.

Carmen: Is concerned that her mother is making a fool of herself over a man. When she discovers that her mother borrowed the Pants to wear on a date, she's certain of it.

Tibby: Not about to spend another summer working at Wallman's, she takes a film course only to find it's what happens off-camera that teaches her the most.


From the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1938933 in Books
• Published on: 2003-09
• Format: Large Print
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 379 pages

From Amazon.com
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!

The Second Summer, while breezy and fun to read, deals seriously with love lost and found, death, and finding the courage to live honestly. The teens' lessons are often painful, but the Sisterhood prevails. Quotations from luminaries such as Charlie Brown ("Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love") to Nelson Mandela ("There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered") open each chapter and cleverly reflect the novel's many moods. (Ages 12 and older) --Karin Snelson

From School Library Journal
Grade 7 Up-The sequel to Ann Brashares' The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Delacorte 2001), The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Delacorte, 2003) is a winner. Amy Povich's chummy best-friend voice sounds by turns confidential, aggressive, plaintive, confused, tormented by sadness and exhilarated by life's finest possibilities. She manages to capture in sound, just as Brashares does in words, an evocation of the inner life and friendships of teen girls today. In addition, this is a fine exploration of the relationships of teens with their families, and mothers in particular. One can't help but have a slight sense of connection with the Divine Ya-Ya's here, with less of a dark side, but not from lack of serious issues. The writing is marvelous, demonstrating a great ability to focus on difficult questions in breathtakingly colorful vignettes told first by one member of the Sisterhood and then by another. Again the four young women are separated by miles and experiences, but have the pants in common, a link that unites and comforts even as it sometimes seems to be a devilish thorn in their sides. Link by careful link, stories of their mothers' past and present relationships are forged and re-forged on their own and through their daughters. Ties between the girls are also kept up through Instant Messages, which lend a feeling of immediacy to the story but take a while to get used to in the audio version. Quotations introducing each chapter also can be hard to place at first. A contents list on the CD case provides valuable cues. This wonderful audiobook covers a veritable gamut of human concerns of interest to teenagers-love and sex, death, independence, choices, consequences. It is sure to have enormous appeal in any young adult collection in high school or public libraries, and would be an outstanding choice for a mother-daughter or teen book group.
Jane P. Fenn, Corning-Painted Post West High School, NY
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
Gr. 8-12. The four friends of the delightful Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2001) are back for another summer of friendship, family, fun, and love with the magic pair of shopworn jeans. The pants travel with Bridget to Alabama, where she reestablishes a bond with her maternal grandmother; then they go with Tibby to a special summer program at Williamston College. The pants are with Lena at home during her on-again, off-again relationship with Kostos, and they are with Carmen as she tries to navigate her own and her mother's love lives. But this year the pants preside over a sadder, more tumultuous summer, as all four girls mature and realize that love and family are far more difficult to sustain than they had thought. Brashares has done an outstanding job of showing the four teens growing up and giving readers a happy, ultimately hopeful book, easy to read and gentle in its important lessons. Readers will want at least one more summer of the sisterhood of the traveling pants. Frances Bradburn
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