Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares

Brashares, Ann. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. 2001. Dell-Laurel Leaf Publishers. New York, New York.

ISBN 13: 978-0553494792. Softcover, $9.99.

Book Awards:
2002 ALA Best Books for Young Adults
2004 Indiana Young Hoosier Award
2003 Iowa Children’s Choice Award
2002 Maryland Black Eyed Susan Award
2003 Missouri Gateway Reader’s Award
2004 New Jersey Garden State Book Award
2002 Rhode Island Children’s Book Award
2003 Washington Evergreen Book Award
2004 Pacific Northwest Young Reader’s Choice Award
2005 Arizona Young Reader’s Award
2004 Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award

Annotation:
Four friends spend their first summer apart from each other. Through the summer, they send a pair of blue jeans back and forth to each other so that the pants will be their common denominator.

Booktalk:“Magic comes in many forms. Tonight it comes to us in a pair of pants. I hereby propose that these Pants belong to us equally, that they will travel to all of the places we’re going, and they will keep us together when we are apart.” Pg. 23.
And thus began the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Four girls travel to separate corners of the world one summer, bound together by one mythical, magical pair of pants. Find out how The Pants changed their lives in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares.

Author Website:
www.annbrashares.net