Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Series
Author: Ann Brashares
Book 3 in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series
Pages: 338
Published: 2005
Age: 13+
The pants first came to us at the perfect moment. That is, when we were splitting up for the first time. It was two summers ago when they first worked their magic, and last summer when they shook up our lives once again. You see, we don't wear the pants year-round. We let them rest so they are extra powerful when the summer comes. (There was a time when this spring when Carmen wore them to her mom's wedding, but that was a special case.)
Now we're facing our last summer together. In September we go away to college. And it's not like one of those TV shows where all of us magically turn up at the same college. We're gonig to four different colleges in four different cities. (but all within four hours of one another - that was our rule). We're headed off to start our real lives.
Tomorrow night at Gilda's we'll launch the Pants on their summer voyage. Tomorrow begins the time of our lives. It's when we'll need our Pants the most.
YALSA Teens' Top Ten (2005)
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.