They decide to keep in touch via email over the summer, but also, almost as a joke, they decide to pass along a pair of $3.40 (tax included) thrift store jeans between the girls as a token of their friendship and love for one another. These best friends claim to have been friends since before they were born, which sounds silly until you learn that their mothers met in a pre-natal aerobics class for women with September due dates, became friends, had the girls one after the other, and then kept up a close friendship between the girls and the moms for a few years.įlashforward to the present day, the girls are inseparable and feel stressed about the thought of spending a whole summer apart (remember that this was the days of dial-up internet, i.e. The first book starts off by introducing the four high school girls at the center of the action - Lena Kaligaris (the Greek one with a younger sister), Tibby Rollins (the working girl with a pair of very young siblings), Bridget Vreeland (the soccer star/ blonde beauty), and Carmen Lowell (the half Puerto Rican one who lives with her mother after the divorce). There’s also a spin-off book, but I did not read this one. There are five books in this series - The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2001), The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (2003), Girls in Pants (2005), Forever in Blue (2007), and Sisterhood Everlasting (2011) (set years in the future) - and, yes, I did read all five books in like three weeks’ time (#bingereading #noshame). Now, you may be asking yourself as I did when I was a kid - why would I want to read a book about pants? Spoiler alert (but not really) - the story is about more than just pants (shocker). However, I do remember being in high school and seeing girls carrying around these colorful books with the iconic pair of jeans printed squarely on the cover. Have you read or seen “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”? Somehow, I missed this young adult classic as a teen.
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