A year after the first summer of the shared jeans, four friends face new loves, old secrets and the parents they thought they knew
Another summer, one pair of jeans
Carmen, Lena, Tibby and Bridget have been friends since before they were born, and a year ago they found a pair of secondhand jeans that somehow fit all four of them perfectly. Now it is summer again, and the Traveling Pants are back in circulation, passed from girl to girl with a letter each time. This year, though, most of the friends are staying home, and the trouble finds them there.
Who will enjoy it
Readers aged about twelve and up who loved the first book and enjoy warm, honest stories about friendship, family and growing up.
What you will get
A warm, honest sequel in which four close friends pass the magic jeans through a summer of romance, regret and new understanding of their mothers.
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting
Genre
Young Adult · Friendship · Summer · Family secrets
Length
373 pages · ≈ 11 h
More about this book
Sequels to a beloved book often repeat the formula, and this one sensibly does not. Instead of sending the girls around the world, Brashares keeps most of them close to home and turns the story toward their parents. Carmen sabotages her mother's new romance out of fear of being left behind. Bridget travels to Alabama under a false name to get to know the grandmother she barely remembers, and to learn about her late mother's past.
Lena, still heartbroken after breaking things off with Kostos in Greece, discovers that her own mother once had a secret of the heart. Tibby goes to a film course in Virginia and falls in with a pair of cynical classmates, then makes a documentary that hurts the person she loves most. Each thread is small and believable, and each girl gets something wrong before she gets it right. The tone is gentle, funny and quietly wise about the way teenagers and parents misread each other.
It is lighter than it sounds, with plenty of romance and summer warmth, and it reads quickly thanks to short alternating sections. Fans can go on to Girls in Pants. About 373 pages in the Delacorte paperback.
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The Truth About Forever
Anna and the French Kiss
The Raven King
I'll Give You the Sun
Everything, Everything
Bridge to Terabithia
Along for the Ride
Love & Gelato
The Sun Is Also a Star
The Perks of Being a Wallflower