Review+13

 **February 23, 2011**

Do you have friends that always have your back? Friends that you have known for your whole life and are exactly like your sisters? Well this describes the premise of the book __Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood__ . The author of this fabulous book is Ann Brashares. I would recommend this book because it is a sequel and the entire series is excellent. When you sit down to read this book, time will escape you! This book will make you sit at the edge of your seat the entire time. It also leaves you hanging so you are eager to read the next book.  The plot is astonishing in this book. This book is about four extremely close friends who consider themselves "sisters". All of the "sisters" go to different places each summer. Don’t worry though, they still get to write notes to each other to keep in touch. The one thing that united the sisters was magical pants. The friends made the rule that when you pass the magical pants to another sister, you have to write a note. These magical pants aren’t just any pants. For example, they fit all of the “sisters” and all of the sisters are different sizes. Isn’t this insane? Well anyways, throughout the book it talks about how the pants helped them in different situations. They helped Carmen (a “sister”) in a lot of ways in the book, especially, when she met Win. Win is a very nice guy that Carmen thinks she might have fallen in love with. Lena also benefited from having the pants. This is because she wanted to get into art school but her dad wouldn’t let her. She wore the pants, and maybe it helped a little bit but you will have to read the book to find out if the pants helped. Another sister who also benefited from the pants is Tibby. The magical pants helped her help someone who was going through troublesome and painful times. This person needed her the most when no one was else was there. If you want to know who the person was that needed help, read the book and find out. Bridget(Bee) was in desperate need of the pants too. Especially when her team is competing against the hardest team in camp. Lastly, she runs into an old “friend” at camp. They become really good friends, but nobody knows if that will last.

Amazing characters definitely make a superb book. This book has very entertaining characters. For instance, this book has many points of views of different characters. There are four main characters in the book. Lena is a beautiful girl who is gifted in art. She is going to Rhode Island School of Design. Thus, to get a free scholarship she had to make a portfolio. Lena is mostly focused on drawing things that she loves. She drew her sister Effie, her mom, her dad, and her grandma Valia. Without a doubt, everybody knew Lena was going to get into RISD, but will she? Carmen is another one of the “sisters.” She will be going to either University of Maryland or Williams. Her dad and mom are divorced, and her dad wants her to go to Williams. Carmen also wants to go to Williams too. Tragically, some unexpected things happen and Carmen wants to stay closer to home. She also learns to see people in new perspectives. Tibby is also another one of the “sisters.” She attended college in New York City. Tibby also finds her true love. Will they stay together though? Who is her true love? Bridget (Bee) is the athletic one of the “sisters.” She goes back to soccer camp, but this time she is a soccer coach. Her crush, Eric, that she met two years ago was there and he is a coach too. They had some interesting times together, but this time is even more interesting. What will happen between Eric and Bee? Now, can’t you see why this book is so worthwhile to read?  For this book __Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood__ there were a lot of awards given. The first award is the Quill Award. The book was the winner of this award in 2006. Winners are selected through a two-part process involving nomination by voting. To get a nomination, a book had to be published in English during the previous year and be included in at least one sponsor listing. This book was also awarded the 2006 Texas TAYSHAS High School Reading List. The purpose of the TAYSHA is to motivate young adults to become perpetual readers. I can definitely tell you why this award was given since I can’t seem to put the books in this series down. The last award that this book earned is a nomination for the Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award. Ann Brashares became a nominee in 2007. This award recognizes the top books in the middle and high school levels.

To conclude, there are many fabulous reasons why I think you should read this book. As you can tell, this is the best book that you could possibly read because it has the most astonishing plot ever. Also, this book has characters that you will fall in love with. Lastly, this book has many awards. Thanks to a really grand author Ann Brashares! I hope you read this book. If you don’t, then you will be missing out!