Booktalking Colorado - Full Booktalk Record

Booktalking Colorado Full Record:

	Title:	The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
	Author:	Brashares, Ann
	Date Published:	2001
	Genre:	Real Life
	Grade Level:	6 - 8
	Booktalker:	Marilyn Bunker
	Awards:	Former Blue Spruce Award Nominee

Booktalk:
Once upon a time there was a pair of pants. They were an essential kind of pants-jeans, naturally, blue but not that stiff, new blue that you see so often on the first day of school, but a soft changeable blue with extra fading at the knees and the seat and white wavelets at the cuffs. We bought the pants at a thrift shop. They were only $3.49 plus tax; I didn’t even try them on, because I wasn’t serious about owning them. Effie bought a little mod dress that was aggressively antiprom. Lena found a pair of beat-up loafers that looked like they’d belonged to somebody’s great uncle. Lena has big feet, like nine and one half. They were the only part of her that isn’t perfect. When we got home, I put them in the back of the closet and forgot about them. The afternoon before we went our different ways for the summer, we got together. The four of us are so close that we form a single complete person, rather than four separate ones. We settle into types. Bridget, the athlete, Lena, the beauty, Tibby, the Rebel and me Carmen, the What??? The one with the bad temper. You want to know what our secret is; we are nice to one another. My Mother says that it won’t stay like this, but I believe it will. The pants are like an omen. They stand for the promise we made to one another that no matter what happens we stick together. We found out that the pants all made us look confident, beautiful and sexy. Even though all of us were different heights and builds. So we formed the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. We wrote up a bunch of rules, the main one being that you could only keep the pants for one week, and that they could never be washed. So they would make the rounds at least twice before the end of the summer and then we would get together to relate the adventures we had while wearing the pants. So Lena left for Greece to visit her grandparents, Bridget went to a soccer camp, in Baja, California, Tibby will stay at home to work for minimum wage at Wallman’s and I am going to visit my divorced Dad in South Carolina. What happened that eventful summer? Read The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.