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Booktalking Colorado Full Record:
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Title: |
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants |
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Author: |
Brashares, Ann |
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Date Published: |
2001 |
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Genre: |
Real Life |
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Grade Level: |
6 - 8 |
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Booktalker: |
Marge Freeburn |
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Awards: |
Former Blue Spruce Award Nominee |
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Booktalk:
Four teen friends shop for clothes. Pretty ordinary, don’t you think? But in this story they discover and buy a remarkable pair of pants at a thrift shop. The jeans look great on each one of them, even though the teens are not alike in size, body type, or style, or personality.
The pants make each girl feel confident, beautiful, and sexy!
Even though they are going different ways for the summer, the girls decide to share the magic by each having the pants for part of the time, and then mailing them on to the next. At the end of the summer, they’ll get together to relate their adventures.
Lena heads to Greece to visit her grandparents, Bridget goes to soccer camp in Baja California, and Carmen leaves to visit her divorced dad in South Carolina. Tibby feels sentenced as she stays home to work a minimum wage summer job.
Each girl will have new experiences, not all of which will be thrilling and enjoyable. Each will mature and develop greater insight into herself, love, and friendship. And each will find that the pants are indeed 'magic.'
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