Summers of the Sisterhood: The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants
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  • Published: 5 October 2006
  • ISBN: 9781407041568
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 6 hr 0 min
  • Narrator: Angela Goethals
  • RRP: $19.99

Summers of the Sisterhood: The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants

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A brilliantly gripping and tender story of four best friends, one special summer, and a magical pair of jeans.

Carmen, Tibby, Lena and Bridget have been best friends all their lives. They live in the same small American town and usually spend every moment of their long summer holidays together. The year they turn 16 is the first time they have separate plans for the summer but the girls are determined to keep in touch. Tibby buys a pair of jeans in a second-hand shop and the girls discover that the trousers magically fit each of them perfectly, despite their different figures and heights. They hit upon a wonderful plan of sharing the jeans throughout the vacation - sending them on to the next friend when they feel the time is right.

From Baja California to Greece, from film-making to football, the girls - and the travelling pants - encounter first love, family upset and fatal illness. Secure in the knowledge that their friendship is constant - and the symbol of it need never be more than a parcel-delivery away - the girls survive their summer and return home with a wealth of new experiences to share.

A perfect teen-chick summer read; a quirky, humorous and memorable cut above the rest.
  • Published: 5 October 2006
  • ISBN: 9781407041568
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 6 hr 0 min
  • Narrator: Angela Goethals
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

Ann Brashares

A lover of summer, pants, and travel, Ann Brashares lives in New York City with her husband and their four children. Her Sisterhood novels - The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants; The Second Summer of the Sisterhood; Girls in Pants; Forever in Blue and Sisterhood Everlasting comprise an internationally bestselling, awardwinning series that inspired two major motion pictures and reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Ann still has a pair of jeans from tenth grade, but they aren't magical and they don't fit any more.

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Also by Ann Brashares

The Whole Thing Together
The Sisterhood Of The Travelling Pants
The Second Summer Of The Sisterhood
Sisterhood Everlasting
3 Willows
Forever In Blue
Girls In Pants
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Praise for Summers of the Sisterhood: The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants

It may be a trick from Hollywood - to put enough momentum into a story so that nothing in it lingers for long and nothing really hurts - but it works

Daily Telegraph

Convincingly and honestly written, this is a book that will help girls understand a little more of the pains and hardships of teenage life, subtly dealing with issues of divorce, terminal illness and first sexual encounters

Waterstones Books Quarterly

Like the trousers of its title, The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants by Ann Brasherers will be passed round from friend to friend this summer: it has instant teen-appeal . . .

Sunday Telegraph

Mentioned in Range of the best recent paperbacks for the summer holidays - only a plot precis though, no actual comment on the book

Financial Times

There is something of a good Channel 4 series in this engaging, froth-free plot . . . Good, hearty, heart-warming fare

Guardian

An outstanding and vivid book that will stay with readers for a long time to come

Publishers Weekly

A complex book . . . resulting in a believable and inviting world

School Library Journal
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