Brashares follows one summer in the lives of four friends, off on their own. Their experiences are interwoven and interconnected by a series of letters through the summer, and the trading of one sweet-fitting pair of pants.
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She started back toward the house. She didn't want her father to call the police out to look for her or anything.
When she made her way to the big picture window she froze. She stopped breathing. The anger was growing again. It grew up into her throat, where she could taste it, coppery like blood...
Her father wasn't looking for her. He wasn't calling the police.
A father, a mother, and two children. One bitter, mismatched girl standing outside, looking in, invisible. The anger was too big to hold inside... (p. 182-183).
Four best friends are separated for the whole summer. Lena and Bridget are heading to foreign countries, where love and mishaps await. Tibby is stuck working, but a younger girl pushing into her life makes things anything but dull. Carmen is spending the summer with her dad, and, to her surprise, his new family. Throughout it all, they're kept together by thoughts of each other, and by the Traveling Pants.
Awards
A 2002 ALA Best Book for Young Adults
2004 Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice
Book Sense Book of the Year
...and many more
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