{"product_id":"girls-in-pants-the-third-summer-of-the-sisterhood-isbn-9780553375930","title":"Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe third novel in the wildly popular #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, from the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Whole Thing Together \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Here and Now.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s the summer before the sisterhood departs for college . . . their last real summer together before they head off to start their grown-up lives. It’s the time when Lena, Tibby, Bridget, and Carmen need their Pants the most.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePants = love. Love your pals. Love yourself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A fun and poignant coming-of-age story.\" —\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Readers of the other books won’t be disappointed.” —\u003ci\u003eBooklist, \u003c\/i\u003eStarred\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A treat for anyone.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“These are friends worth having.” —\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A fun and poignant coming-of-age story.\" —\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Readers of the other books won’t be disappointed.” —\u003ci\u003eBooklist, \u003c\/i\u003eStarred\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A treat for anyone.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“These are friends worth having.” —\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Filled  with conversations, action, \u0026amp; life.\" —\u003ci\u003eKliatt, \u003c\/i\u003eStarred\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The girls are once again  wonderfully drawn, with all their realistic faults.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The Pants  set will bruise their fingertips on this page-turner.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Bulletin, \u003c\/i\u003eRecommended\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fast-paced, addictive reading.\" —\u003ci\u003eChildren's Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Four intersecting story lines, snappy dialogue, empathy for characters and humor make this installment as enjoyable as the others.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnn Brashares is the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, \u003ci\u003eThe Whole Thing Together\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Here and Now, 3 Willows, The Last Summer (of You \u0026amp; Me),\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMy Name Is Memory.\u003c\/i\u003e She lives in New York City with her family. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVisit Ann online at AnnBrashares.com and follow @AnnBrashares on Twitter.Granted, Tibby was in a mood. All she could see was change. All anybody talked about was change. She didn’t like Bee’s wearing heels for the second day in a row. She felt peevish about Lena’s getting three inches trimmed off her hair. Couldn’t everybody just leave everything alone for a few minutes?\u003cbr\u003eTibby was a slow adjuster. In preschool, her teachers had said she had trouble with transitions. Tibby preferred looking backward for information rather than forward. As far as she was concerned, she’d take a nursery school report card over a fortune-teller any day of the week. It was the cheapest and best self-analysis around. \u003cbr\u003eTibby saw Gilda’s through these same eyes. It was changing. Its glory days of the late nineteen eighties were far behind it. It was showing its age. The once-shiny wood floor was scratched and dull. One of the mirror panels was cracked. The mats looked as old as Tibby, and they’d been cleaned much less. Gilda’s was trying to get with the times, offering kickboxing and yoga, according to the big chalkboard, but it didn’t look to Tibby like that was helping much. What if it went out of business? What a horrible thought. Maybe Tibby should buy a subscription of classes here? No, that would be weird, wouldn’t it?\u003cbr\u003e“Tibby, you ready?” Lena was looking at her with concerned eyebrows.\u003cbr\u003e“What if Gilda’s closes?” Tibby opened her mouth, and that was what came out.\u003cbr\u003eCarmen, holding the Traveling Pants, Lena, lighting the candles, Bee, fussing with the dimmer switches near the door, all turned to her.\u003cbr\u003e“Look at this place.” Tibby gestured around. “I mean, who comes here?”\u003cbr\u003eLena was puzzled. “I don’t know. Somebody. Women. Yoga people.”\u003cbr\u003e“Yoga people?” Carmen asked.\u003cbr\u003e“I don’t know,” Lena said again, laughing.\u003cbr\u003eTibby was the one most capable of emotional detachment, but tonight it all lay right on the surface. Her irrational thoughts about Gilda’s made her feel desperate, like its demise could swallow up their whole existence—like a change in the present could wipe out the past. The past felt fragile to her. But the past was set, right? It couldn’t be changed. Why did she feel such a need to protect it?\u003cbr\u003e“I think it’s Pants time,” Carmen said. The snacks were out. The candles were lit. The egregiously bad dance music played.\u003cbr\u003eTibby wasn’t sure she wanted it to be Pants time yet. She was having enough trouble maintaining control. She was scared of them noticing what all this meant.\u003cbr\u003eToo late. Out of Carmen’s arms came the artifacts of their ritual. The Pants, slowly unfolding from their winter compression, seeming to gain strength as they mixed with the special air of Gilda’s. Carmen laid them on the ground, and on top of them the manifesto, written on that first night two years before, describing the rules of wearing them. Silently they formed their circle, studying the inscriptions and embroidery that chronicled their summer lives. \u003cbr\u003e“Tonight we say good-bye to high school, and bye to Bee for a while,” Carmen said in her ceremonial voice. “We say hello to summer, and hello to the Traveling Pants.”\u003cbr\u003eHer voice grew less ceremonial. “Tonight we are not worrying about good-bye to each other. We’re saving that for the beach at the end of the summer. That’s the deal, right?”\u003cbr\u003eTibby felt like kissing Carmen. Brave as she was, even Carmen was daunted by the implications of looking ahead.\u003cbr\u003e“That’s the deal,” Tibby agreed heartily. \u003cbr\u003eThe last weekend of the summer had already become sacred in their minds. Sacred and feared. The Morgans owned a house right on the beach in Rehoboth. They had offered it to Carmen for that final weekend, in part, Carmen suspected, because they had gotten an au pair from Denmark and felt guilty about not hiring Carmen to babysit this summer as she had done the summer before. \u003cbr\u003eThe four of them had promised each other in the spring that it would be their weekend. The four of them and nobody else. They all depended upon it. The future was unfurling fast, but whatever happened this summer, that weekend stood between them and the great unknown. \u003cbr\u003eThey all looked ahead to college in different ways, Tibby knew. They all had different amounts to lose. Bee, in her lonely house, had nothing. Carmen did; she dreaded saying good-bye to her mother. Tibby feared leaving the familiarity of her chaos. Lena flipped and flopped—one day she was afraid to cut ties, and the next she was dying to get away. \u003cbr\u003eThe thing they feared equally and powerfully was saying good-bye to one another.\u003cbr\u003eAfter drawing for the Pants (Tibby won), reviewing the rules (unnecessary, but still part of tradition), and taking a brief hiatus to chew down some Gummi Worms, it was at last time for the vow. 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