Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Series
Author: Ann Brashares
Book 4 in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series
Pages: 384
Published: 2007
Age: 13+
As their lives take them in different directions, Lena, Tibby, Carmen, and Bridget discover many more things about themselves and the importance of their relationship with each other. The girls find themselves finished with their freshman year of college and experiencing a bevy of quandaries involving sex, relationships, self-esteem, and growing up.
Lena is finally getting over Kostos when she meets the wildly talented Leo in her painting class, while Bee's archeological dig in Turkey involves a very appealing professor, who also happens to be married. Carmen's depression isn't helped by her new friend, Julia, and Tibby's decision to sleep with Brian brings on consequences she never dreamed of. Though the magical pants take a backseat in this stirring drama, they ultimately bring the girls together.
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.