Sisterhood Everlasting
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Series
Author: Ann Brashares
Book 5 in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series
Pages: 350
Published: 2011
Age: 13+
Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget have grown up and are starting their lives on their own. And though the jeans they shared are long gone, the sisterhood is everlasting. Despite having jobs and men that they love, each knows that something is missing: the closeness that once sustained them.
Carmen is a successful actress in New York, engaged to be married, but misses her friends. Lena finds solace in her art, teaching in Rhode Island, but still thinks of Kostos and the road she didn’t take. Bridget lives with her longtime boyfriend, Eric, in San Francisco, and though a part of her wants to settle down, a bigger part can’t seem to shed her old restlessness.
Then Tibby reaches out to bridge the distance, sending the others plane tickets for a reunion that they all breathlessly await. And indeed, it will change their lives forever—but in ways that none of them could ever have expected.
As moving and life-changing as an encounter with long-lost best friends, Sisterhood Everlasting is a powerful story about growing up, losing your way, and finding the courage to create a new one.
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.

