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title: The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of Traveling Pants, Book 2)

author: Ann Brashares


genre: YA

published: 2003

pages: 373

first line: Once there were four girls who shared a pair of pants.





rated: 4 out of 5

'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.'

After reading the first in this series, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, I had to read the second book. This is a fun and addictive series. The books are quick, light reads.



Bee ends up going to meet her grandmother in Alabama, who she found out has been trying to reach her for years. While there she learns about her mother, the past and herself.




Carmen winds up having to deal with her emotions about her mother dating a man from work. And *gasp* her mom has the nerve to wear the pants out on a date! I think Carmen is my favorite 'sister' in these books, she cracks me up, but she is also the sister I can relate to the most.




Lena has been having a long distance relationship with her Greek boyfriend Kostos, only to break it off with him, then regret it. She finds out an interesting secret about her own mother and a past love. And she also finds out something about Kostos...that had me saying O-M-G.



Tibby goes off to a film program in a college in Virginia and meets a couple of new friends. She gets an assignment to make a film about someone who has had an impact on her life. Meanwhile, her friend Brian comes down to visit her, and isn't too happy about the way Tibby treats him. Tibby re-evaluates the way she's been living her life since her friend Bailey died last summer, and she learns to move on.






This second book in the series was great. I like how the story continued, the storyline was very emotional. It was hard to put down, and I found myself tearing up at parts, then laughing out loud at other parts. I will be reading book 3!



This second book has been made into a film.








About the author:



Ann Brashares was born and raised in the Washington, D.C. area with her three brothers. She attended the Sidwell Friends School and then studied philosophy at Barnard College, part of Columbia University in New York City.



After college she worked in editorial jobs until 2000, when she began her first novel, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, published in 2001. Over the next five years she wrote three sequels–The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, Girls in Pants, and Forever in Blue. In June 2007 she will release her fifth novel, The Last Summer (of You and Me). The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants was made into a feature film and released by Warner Brothers in 2005. The studio is currently filming a sequel to be released in the summer of 2008.




visit the author's website:
http://www.annbrashares.net/