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Jan 2005, 352 pages
Paperback:
Jun 2006, 368 pages
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants are facing their last summer together before they go to college. Or, to be precise, four different colleges. And so they launch the Pants on their third summer voyage.
The Pants first came to us at the perfect moment. That is, when we were splitting up for the first time. It was two summers ago when they first worked their magic, and last summer when they shook up our lives once again. You see, we don’t wear the Pants year-round. We let them rest so they are extra powerful when summer comes. (There was the time this spring when Carmen wore them to her mom’s wedding, but that was a special case.)
Now we’re facing our last summer together. In September we go to college. And it’s not like one of those TV shows where all of us magically turn up at the same college. We’re going to four different colleges in four different cities (but all within four hours of one another—that was our one rule). We’re headed off to start our real lives.
Tomorrow night at Gilda’s we’ll launch the Pants on their third summer voyage. Tomorrow begins the time of our lives. It’s when we’ll need our Pants the most.
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?
Tibby 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.
Tibby 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.
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Girls in Pants is every bit as good as the first two books in the series...continued
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