The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Series
Author: Ann Brashares
Book 2 in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series
Pages: 374
Published: 2003
Age: 13+
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.
YALSA Teens' Top Ten (2003)
About the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Series
Books in series order
- 1.The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants(2001)
- 2.The Second Summer of the Sisterhood(2003)
- 3.Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood(2005)
- 4.Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood(2007)
- 5.Sisterhood Everlasting(2011)
Reading age: 13+ years
This series should be read in order.
Carmen got the jeans at a thrift shop. They didn't look all that great: they were worn, dirty, and speckled with bleach. On the night before she and her friends part for the summer, Carmen decides to toss them. But Tibby says they're great. She'd love to have them. Lena and Bridget also think they're fabulous. Lena decides that they should all try them on. Whoever they fit best will get them.
Nobody knows why, but the pants fit everyone perfectly. Even Carmen (who never thinks she looks good in anything) thinks she looks good in the pants. Over a few bags of cheese puffs, they decide to form a sisterhood and take the vow of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants . . . the next morning, they say good-bye. And then the journey of the pants—and the most memorable summer of their lives—begins.