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What Parents Need to KnowParents need to know that The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is the first book in Ann Brashares' series about a group of girls who share a pair of "magical" pants to bond and stay connected to one another's experiences. This book's emphasis on strong, supportive girl friendships may inspire readers to examine how they interact with their own friends and what they think being supportive to other people looks like. Readers learn the rules to wearing the pants, which help the girls discover their inner strength and positive self-image. The characters do make some poor decisions, but they each grow and learn from them. There's some sexual content (lots of kissing, it's implied one charatcer has sex with a boy), language (including "s–t"), and some pretty intense, if mostly age-appropriate, emotional situations. This coming-of-age story offers many points of connection for readers going through puberty or readers interested in narratives that examine the highs and lows of growing older, making friends, and learning to be an adult. Community Reviews
February 7, 2020 Parents need to know that this book supports female friendships, which will inspire many readers. The characters make poor choices, but they "grow from them," according to the site's expert review. There are some sexual references, language and some "intense" emotional stuff. Teens will really enjoy this book (young adults, too!). This title has: Great role models Too much sex Too much swearing June 7, 2017 *Spoiler included RE sexual contentI did really enjoy this book and found the characters to be well developed and charming...true to how I remember myself and my friends feeling and acting in high school, if not in action, definitely in spirit. I do feel that the material is more appropriate for high school aged teens, however. The provided review referenced "some sexual content" which would include a young teen seducing an older teen so she could lose her virginity. A lot of emotion is involved, obviously my description is brief, flippant, even, for the purpose of sharing information quickly. Remember that I do like this book and am not saying to stay away from it. And some 12-year-olds may relate to that. But not all. I think there are some parents of 7th graders who would want to know that that's in there and would choose to hold off a bit. I just like everyone to be able to make those informed choices. What's the Story?In THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS, Lena, Bridget, Tibby, and Carmen have been best friends since birth. Now, just before they're about to spend their first summer apart, they discover a pair of jeans that miraculously fits all of them. And not just fits -- the Pants make each girl look and feel beautiful and confident. They don't know it yet, but they'll need that confidence during a summer that will test them, each in different ways. In a solemn midnight ceremony that will resonate with teen readers, the girls make up a compact about the Pants, part of which is that they'll send them back and forth among themselves throughout the summer. Is It Any Good?Ann Brashares is a great storyteller, building a reservoir of affection for her characters that makes the climax of each of their stories effective. This book's main characters certainly experience their share of drama: Tibby befriends a 12-year-old with leukemia, Carmen's father has a new family, Lena falls in love in Greece, and Bridget has her first sexual experience, which devastates her. The friendship that the four girls share is the kind most teens long for: rock solid and dependable, with no rivalries or pettiness to mar it, filled only with kindness, love, and understanding. This friendship -- along with the girls' openness to the world and their capacity for honest self-appraisal and growth -- gives teen readers something to aspire to. Talk to Your Kids About ...
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What age is appropriate for Sisterhood of the Traveling pants book?Ages 12-up.
Is The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants based on a true story?"Based on a true story." If you've heard it once, you've heard it a zillion times—but how many of those zillion times is that true story about a bunch of girls sharing a pair of jeans? Yeah, we didn't think so.
Do Lena and Kostos get back together?Lena goes back to Greece for a reunion with her friends and after discovering Tibby died, she asks Kostos for help with Tibby's death. As they talk, they rekindle a friendship. They start writing to each other again and realizing she's not afraid of his love, eventually end up together at the end of the book.
What happens to Tibby?Tibby Rollins
Disaster strikes when she suddenly dies in a swimming accident on the shores in Greece leaving her friends, Lena, Bridget, and Carmen, devastated, and with the belief that she committed suicide, they begin to questioning everything that they believe in.
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