Girls In Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood, #3) by Ann Brashares

Jul 27, 2008 Deana rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult, 2008, library-book

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I enjoyed this book as much as the first two, although I did have a few issues with it.

1. What kind of camp assigns a male and female councelor to do an overnight trip with 10-14 year old boys and has them share a tent without the campers in it? I don't care if they -are- both over 18, I just don't see a camp doing that. It became unbelievable to me. Now, if they'd had different tents and one or the other snuck over to the other... although that would go against what they were trying to accompli...more I enjoyed this book as much as the first two, although I did have a few issues with it.

1. What kind of camp assigns a male and female councelor to do an overnight trip with 10-14 year old boys and has them share a tent without the campers in it? I don't care if they -are- both over 18, I just don't see a camp doing that. It became unbelievable to me. Now, if they'd had different tents and one or the other snuck over to the other... although that would go against what they were trying to accomplish (trust) so... yeah. Same problem with him helping her when she was sick. Although it was super sweet, I think someone would complain and they'd probably get fired for her sleeping in his bed. Even if she was sick. And especially cause he was there too, they were both in nothing but underwear, and he had his arms around her. At a camp full of 10-14 year old MALE campers... that seems like a no-no to me. I was very, very proud of Bee for not having sex with the guy, though.

2. Lena's scholarship. It was just too perfect. Her parents take away her chances of going to school, her teacher pushes her to apply for a scholarship - there are already 70 applications and only a few days to apply - she pulls off a bunch of drawings of her family in a very short time with very little preparation... and of course she gets the scholarship. It just works out too perfectly for me. I was almost hoping she -wouldn't- get it, to shock us, since everyone -knew- she would get it. Or maybe she didn't get it, but her parents saw how amazing her work was and changed their mind and saw she was really determined to go so they paid for it and it all worked out, but for a while we were scared she wouldn't get to go, you know?

3. I must be a bad person, but I was seriously hoping that David (Carmen's mom's husband) was having an affair. Out of town for work all the time, his cell phone is turned off... I was seriously thinking that Carmen and Win would get to Trenton or wherever he was, and find him with another woman. But no, of course, these books are too good for that. Once again, predictablilty wins.

4. And finally, something good. I loved Tibby in this book. In the first two, she annoyed me. But in this one, she really came into her own and I really liked her character. She was not predictable, and she changed a lot as a person throughout the book. Yay Tibby!(less)

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Jun 27, 2012 Melissa (ladybug) rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, young-adult, team-read

From the goodreads blurb:

"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."

This is the first book I have read in this series. It is about 4 girls who are friends throughout high school. This book takes place thei...more From the goodreads blurb:

"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."

This is the first book I have read in this series. It is about 4 girls who are friends throughout high school. This book takes place their last summer together before college.

I found myself liking this book. It was written in an easy to read and understand format. There was not a lot of language and just a few questionable situations. I started the book and could not put it down. Having started at 8:30 PM and ended at 12:00 AM reading, I found myself having read it straight through. Each chapter was narrated by each of the girls and really showed what the summer was like for them.

This caused one of the problems for me though. There was no lines or scene closings. The book would be about Carmen or Bee or etc. and then it would switch to Tibby's or etc... This was very disconcerting and would knock me out of the story. That was very disappointing.

Second was what kind of camp did Bee go to? I have never heard of a camp that would assign just one girl counselor and one boy counselor together for activities (that maybe no camper wants to attend) or assigns them to take a group of (9 - 13 year old) boys or girls camping and only provides one two person tent for these same counselors to share? This is just a law suit waiting to happen. I would have been extremely upset to send a child to such a camp. I would have also been upset to learn that these same two counselors were in each others cabins and beds in just their underwear. True one was sick and nothing happened, but it is the appearance and responsibilities.

Third is what happened to the "Pants"? The Pants had a very minor role in this book and the focus was solely on the girls. I wanted to learn more about the pants and how they affected the summer.

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Jul 18, 2008 Nikel27 rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: bookcrossing-com, books-sent-on, 2008-tbr-challenge

Very good read, I love the girls
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It's the summer before the sisterhood departs for college . . . their last to summer together before they head off to start their grown-up lives. It's the when they need their Pants the most.

Tibby: Learns that the Pants have always known what she hasn't about B and clings to them tightly—while others around her leap headfirst.

Carmen: Needs all the Pants magic possible, now that she's agreed to Lena's cranky Gree...more

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Nov 24, 2008 Kirsten rated it 1 of 5 stars

So frustrating!!!! I had some issues with Book #2, but really wanted to see what happened next, so I moved on to Book #3. I seriously want to slap everybody in this book. Brashares doesn't seem to realize that in order for characters to mature, they should (hopefully) learn from their mistakes and their experiences. No one has progressed one whit. Carmen is still terribly upset when anybody has something going on in her life that doesn't revolve around her, and proceeds to act like a very small...more

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Nov 12, 2008 Jazmine rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Sisterhood fans worldwide!

Recommended to Jazmine by: been reading the series

The third summer of the sisterhood takes place before their freshman year of college. This is an important time in their life and they are anxious for their futures. Everyone this summer is staying in Bethesda except for Bridget who attends soccer camp in Pennsylvania where she is reunited with Erik, her heartthrob from two summers ago who changed her forever. This time though after creating a friendship they pursue a relationship together. Brian and Tibby are in love, but Tibby is afraid they w...more The third summer of the sisterhood takes place before their freshman year of college. This is an important time in their life and they are anxious for their futures. Everyone this summer is staying in Bethesda except for Bridget who attends soccer camp in Pennsylvania where she is reunited with Erik, her heartthrob from two summers ago who changed her forever. This time though after creating a friendship they pursue a relationship together. Brian and Tibby are in love, but Tibby is afraid they will lose their friendship. In the end, she lets go of her fears when she learns that sometimes you just have to take the chance when her younger sister, Katherine, is injured. She falls out of Tibby’s window, which Tibby opened, when reaching for an apple belonging to the apple tree behind their house. Against her father’s desires Lena wishes to attend the Rhode Island School of Design, so, without his financial support she works hard to win a scholarship. Later, he apologizes and gives her his permission though she doesn’t need it, but wants it. Carmen discovers that her mother is pregnant, and chooses to attend the University of Maryland to stay close to home, but after the baby is born she realizes she should follow her dreams and “re-enrolls” to Williams (she doesn’t think her parents ever took her out). Her summer job is to watch Lena’s homesick, newly widowed grandmother, Valia. Despite their disputes Carmen ends up caring for Valia and persuades the Kaligaris to let Valia return to her beautiful, Greek island. Carmen and a boy, Win, develop a strange relationship which Carmen feels guilty about because she thinks she is giving this false impression of her being some saint who volunteers all the time when really she thinks of herself as a pretty awful person. In the end, she discovers that “Good Carmen” is a part of her, too. The foursome end their summer with a trip to the beach where they each present each other with gifts for remembering their everlasting bond.

Once again, I was engrossed in the “girls in pants’” compelling journeys. It was romantic, credible, bittersweet, and full of much change. The characters were developed to a degree where they felt like long, lost friends. The relationships were strong and the author kept my attention with her perfectly built suspense. Lovely imagery allowed me to visualize everything that occurred. I can’t wait to read the next and final book.
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Jul 22, 2009 Lizz rated it 2 of 5 stars

Okay, Brashares, you should have quit while you were ahead. The plot is thin. The story is anti-climactic. I love the descriptive writing style, but it doesn't make up for what's lacking.

It seems as if Brashares was forced to write this book in a limited amount of time. There's very little development, and frankly, it's boring. Relationships are built-up and there's no follow through. The characters get what they want with very little effort, the events are predictable and too much is said inst...more

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Nov 23, 2007 Seana rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: People who like chick lit.

In this book, it is now the third year the sisters have had the pants. Except this time, they are all in college in different places. In this book Carmen's mom is having a baby, and Tibby ends up having to do something very Special for her. Also in the book Carmen finally meets her special someone. Who she laughs and hangs with most of the summer, but is she pushing him away by constantly talking about her friends, and canceling dates to hang with them instead? Also in this book, Lena becomes de...more

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Jan 02, 2009 Antof9 rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2005-read, fathers, faves, made-me-cry, women

TISSUE ALERT!

Well, I was told to have more tissues on hand for this book than the other two. That was good advice. This definitely had more heavy moments, and earlier on, than the first two books.

The author's writing was a bit more poetic in this book, as if her writing, like The Septembers, is growing up. This book takes place during the summer after their senior year of high school, and I actually got choked up when I read the second sentence in this section: "But if you're me, you realize tha...more TISSUE ALERT!

Well, I was told to have more tissues on hand for this book than the other two. That was good advice. This definitely had more heavy moments, and earlier on, than the first two books.

The author's writing was a bit more poetic in this book, as if her writing, like The Septembers, is growing up. This book takes place during the summer after their senior year of high school, and I actually got choked up when I read the second sentence in this section: "But if you're me, you realize that life as we've known it is over. Our shared childhood is ending. . . . To me that is awe-inspiring, but it is also the single scariest thought in the world."

I'm trying to figure out how to describe how I felt about these girls. I was pleased as they each became more fully aware of others around them, less selfish and caring. I suppose that's something we all hope will happen as we grow up. But of course it doesn't happen to everyone. Carmen's change was the most obvious, as she realized that "Good Carmen" was actually part of her, not just an act to impress a nice guy. But I loved what Bee did for one gangly soccer player. Tibby's story was heart-wrenching in multiple ways, and Lena's experience with her art was beautifully touching. The interaction with her dad at the end is wonderful. I'm sure I found it more touching because my dad isn't alive any more, but still -- it was great reading.

I don't think I can give much more of a review without giving spoilers, so I'll end with this: I loved this book! I really like this series, and would recommend it to anyone, but this last one especially is very good. The first two were sort of fun YA that older people might enjoy too, but this third one puts a lovely finish on the series and makes it a great book for all ages. If I had a teenage daughter, I'd want her to read these books and then discuss them with me. There's a lot of life application within them, and I think it would be an easy "in" to cover a lot of heavy subjects that parents might shy away from discussing in the first place.(less)

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Apr 17, 2013 Andrea G rated it 4 of 5 stars

Title: Girls In Pants: the third summer of the sisterhood
Author: Ann Brashares
Genre: realistic fiction
Pages:338(this includes the epiloge and prologue)

The main charaters of this book is Tibby, Carmen, Lena, and Bridget. These are the four girls of the sisterhood. Tibby uses the pants to figure out the things she never realized about her and Brian's relationship. Carmen needs the pants to work their magic for her because she agreed to take care of Lena's "cranky, greek grandmother." Also, she is...more

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Nov 15, 2012 Taylor Werner rated it 5 of 5 stars

The third summer of the sisterhood, Lena, Tibby, Bridgette and Carmen are getting ready to enjoy their last summer before going off to college. This summer the four girls struggle through more hardships and broken family lives. Lena's widowed grandmother has recently traveled from Greece to live with Lena's family, causing a lot of tension within her home. On top of this, Lena battles her parents who do not want her to attend an art school, though that is her true passion. Eventually, Lena prove...more

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Oct 12, 2012 abi rated it 5 of 5 stars

I think the more you read these books the closer you get to the characters and grow to like them. I can really relate to this book because it is my final year at school and next year I should (hopefully) be going to university. This story just made me think about how much I'm going to miss my friends and how my life is altering so suddenly.

The story was split up into four stories again, Lena's, Bridget's, Tibby's and Carmen's. This time I enjoyed every story unlike the 1st book and the 2nd book...more

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Sep 21, 2012 Tessa rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Troisième été pour nos quatre adolescentes et bientôt l’entrée à l’université. Les filles savent qu’elles ne se verront plus aussi souvent qu’avant et c’est sur cette note un peu triste que démarre l’été. On sent d’ailleurs se désarroi en chacune des filles, comme si chacune trainait un peu des pieds à avancer, sachant très bien ce qui les attend.

Pour ce tome, je n’ai pas eu d’histoire préférée et chacune possède un petit point qui m’a touché.

Tout d’abord Carmen qui se voit devenir l’aide de Val...more Troisième été pour nos quatre adolescentes et bientôt l’entrée à l’université. Les filles savent qu’elles ne se verront plus aussi souvent qu’avant et c’est sur cette note un peu triste que démarre l’été. On sent d’ailleurs se désarroi en chacune des filles, comme si chacune trainait un peu des pieds à avancer, sachant très bien ce qui les attend.

Pour ce tome, je n’ai pas eu d’histoire préférée et chacune possède un petit point qui m’a touché.

Tout d’abord Carmen qui se voit devenir l’aide de Valia. Cela nous permet de découvrir un peu plus “Mamita” et de comprendre sa tristesse face à sa nouvelle vie loin de son pays natal. Carmen (qui a aussi mauvais caractère que Valia) va devoir faire front et creuser un peu pour réellement voir qui est Valia.

Tibby fait de nouveau face à une situation qui montre que Riley avait encore et toujours raison. Brian se rapproche d’elle et même si elle est la dernière au courant de ce qui se passe, en temps que lecteur, on voit bien l’évolution de leur relation et malgré qu’elle ai du mal à se révéler, elle n’en est pas moins touchante.

Lena de son côté doit tenter toujours d’oublier Kostos (et je vous avoue que j’aurais préféré qu’elle n’ai pas à le faire!) et se plonge complètement dans le dessin. J’ai vraiment aimé me plonger dans ses émotions lorsqu’elle réalise un croquis, on oublie avec elle se qui l’entoure et on découvre avec elle ce que tentent de cacher les personnes qu’elle dessine.

Enfin Bridget a l’histoire la plus simple. On retourne un peu au premier tome lors de sa rencontre avec Eric. On peut au moins lui reconnaitre qu’elle a grandit par rapport à leur première histoire. On la sent tiraillée par le fait de le voir et j’étais autant frustrée qu’elle de ne pouvoir le que de loin.

J’ai trouvé aussi que les personnages secondaires prenaient une bonne place dans l’histoire. On les voit de plus en plus et font réellement partis de la vie des filles. Brian, Effie, Katherine, Valia, Christina, Eric, Win… On ne peut pas passer à côté d’eux et on se rend surtout compte que sans eux, les aventures des filles seraient bien moins intéressantes!

Au final, nos quatre filles et leur jean grandissent bien. Elles font encore une fois face aux difficultés de la vie et c’est toujours avec plaisir que je les suis!(less)

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Aug 29, 2012 Susan rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012books

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 c...more

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Jun 03, 2011 Rebecca rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya

The last book currently in the series, even though the fourth one is supposed to be released this winter. These books read so fast and they don't divulge into any of the characters too much, that I barely remembered what happened in this one.

Bee went off to soccer camp and rekindled her friendship with whatever his name was from the first book.

Tibby's sister falls out of her bedroom window trying to pick an apple. Tibby feels horrible because she never opens her windows and he sister was begging...more

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May 25, 2011 Kelsey Siegel rated it 5 of 5 stars

The Third Summer of the Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants. This book was written by Ann Brashares. It is worth 10 AR points. The genre of this book is Fiction.

This book is about four teenage girls who are Lena, Tibby, Bridget, and Carmen they are best friends and have been together all their lives in Bethesda, Maryland, but are about to separate for the summer. Lena is going to Greece to spend with her grandparents. Tibby is stay at home because her mom just had a baby. Bridget is going to a so...more

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Jul 21, 2010 Ariana rated it 5 of 5 stars

Best buds Tibby, Carmen, Lena and Bridget are back with their magical pair of shared jeans in Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood. Each summer brings new and difficult challenges, as the perennially separated friends discover afresh this last season before college. Tibby struggles with the idea of close friend Brian becoming her boyfriend, and their fragile relationship is soon tested by a tragedy in her immediate family. Carmen doesn't know how to react when she finds out that he...more

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Dec 02, 2008 Sri rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult

Buku ketiga ini kurang menarik bagiku. Seiring dengan bertambahnya usia si empat sekawan celana berpiknik (kekeke, terjemahan yang aneh bukan?) kepribadian mereka ternyata tidak jauh berkembang. Kecuali Bridget. Dia sudah dapat mengendalikan emosinya, ambisinya. Tenang tapi tetap mematikan. Oh yeah! Aku suka Bee!
Carmen tetap kekanak-kanakan.
Tibby tetap kurang memperhatikan dan menerima perhatian orang-orang yang menyayanginya.
Lena tetap mengharapkan cinta yang lama. Oh kemana perginya kisah cint...more

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Feb 18, 2013 Julia rated it 4 of 5 stars

On suit une nouvelle fois les 4 filles durant l'été.
Bridget s'est retrouvée et retourne faire un stage de foot, mais cette fois comme entraîneur. Elle retrouve Éric, son premier amour.
Tibby suit un cours de cinéma, Carmen devient la garde malade de la grand-mère de Lena et Lena suit des cours de dessin.

Attention, spoilers !
Je préfère définitivement bridget et Tibby. J'ai eu envie de secouer Lena durant tout le livre !!!
Elle m'agace à rester coincée sur kostos, que je trouve inintéressant... Ell...more

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Jul 12, 2012 Julie Cotton rated it 3 of 5 stars

Favorite Lines:
Annik (teacher) to Lena: "You've got to draw the chair." (wheel chair) ~ Search a person for what matters to them. Don' judge them on a surface level.
Tibby: "Try, reach, want and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway.
Bridget: "Sex could be a blissful communion. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace."
"Tibby knew a thing or two about leaps." (So do I.)
"And so they jumped together." (true partnershi...more

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Nov 04, 2009 Liana rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: grade-8-ir-book

This book is about four best friends named Bridget(Bee), Lena, Tibby, and Carmen. It is summer and they are all going off to college. In the first book they find a pair of jeans that fits them all. In the summer they mail the pants to each other because they think that it brings them luck. This book talks about each of the best friends summers and their adventures. An external conflict for Lena is that she loves to draw and she wants to go to an art school. Her parents doesn't want her to, but s...more

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Sep 05, 2009 Khaya rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Hard-core "Traveling Pants" fans

Shelves: chicklit

The “Traveling Pants” books are brain candy, although I felt that the first one was more like a good Swiss chocolate bar while the subsequent ones were more like eating marshmallow fluff with a spoon.

I agree with the reviewers who found Bee to be their favorite of the four girls. She’s definitely the most authentic; the other three girls felt flat and pretty much interchangeable, less so in the first book but increasingly as the series continued. I also thought Bee’s story in this book was the...more The “Traveling Pants” books are brain candy, although I felt that the first one was more like a good Swiss chocolate bar while the subsequent ones were more like eating marshmallow fluff with a spoon.

I agree with the reviewers who found Bee to be their favorite of the four girls. She’s definitely the most authentic; the other three girls felt flat and pretty much interchangeable, less so in the first book but increasingly as the series continued. I also thought Bee’s story in this book was the most interesting of the four – working as a camp soccer coach, she meets the older guy she impulsively seduced at fifteen when she was not ready for the experience. Naturally, reuniting with him as a more mature young woman evokes complicated feelings – embarrassment and shame about her earlier behavior and what it led to; confusion about how to relate to him, especially once he reveals that he now has a girlfriend; and pain at the feelings she continues to have for him knowing she can no longer pursue him since he’s taken and she’s too mature in any case to behave the way she did earlier.

The other three storylines, I felt, were not only hackneyed but a bit of a stretch: Tibby’s old friend Brian admits to having feelings for her which she returns but is scared to express (oh, come on already); Carmen meets a gorgeous (of course) guy who gets the mistaken impression that she’s some kind of good Samaritan and she’s afraid to set him straight (it really shouldn’t have been that big a deal); Lena’s father decides he doesn’t want her to go to art school so now she needs to pursue a scholarship, and she basically spends the entire book drawing. Bo-ring.

I was in the mood for something light to space out with, and for that, “Girls in Pants” was adequate, I guess. I’ve definitely read better space-out books, but I’ve also read ones that were too stupid and unbelievable and/or poorly written to finish despite my wish for something fluffy; this one didn’t fall into that category, for the most part. But I wouldn’t tell anyone to rush out and read it, unless they really enjoyed “The Second Summer of the Sisterhood” (which already showed signs of strain, in my opinion) and are dying to read further adventures of the girls.
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Nov 14, 2010 Jess Michaelangelo rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: series, chicklit, fiction, library, re-read, young-adult, wishlist

When reading book after book in a series, it's a little difficult to review each individual book without seeming too repetitive. If you're a fan of the series, you'll be sure to enjoy this installment, as well.

Even though my favorite is still the second one, Ann Brashares really shows her writing chops in this one. She reaches out and explores the use of language and emotions, instead of just "This happened. So-and-so reacted this way. So-and-so number two said this." This is not to say that I...more

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Jan 25, 2013 Nina Chen rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 8th-grade

I just finished this book and was sad to find out that the library didn't have the fourth one. In this book it's about how each character is trying to figure out what to do with their life. That is because they are going to college next year. Lena wants to go to art school but her parents wouldn't pay for it so she has to win a scholarship. Carmen isn't so sure about leaving for college yet because she is afraid that her mother is going to forget her, after all she does have a new stepfather and...more

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Jun 23, 2010 Knucklefish rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult

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May 30, 2009 Heather Palmer marked it as to-read

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 c...more

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Feb 01, 2010 Ms. Patterson rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites

After reading the first two "Sisterhood" books, I had to read the third one. I wanted to find out what happens to Bridget, Tibby, Carmen & Lena as they get older.

GIRLS IN PANTS starts with the four girls graduating from high school. Each has a different plan for college next year and this is their last summer together. The pants, once again, serve as a way for the girls to connect while all experiencing pivotal moments in their lives.

At first, I wasn't very interested in the story. It seemed...more

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Jul 29, 2011 Catherine Woodman added it · review of another edition

The number of reviews of the third book in a series is a tribute to the series itself--it has remained a true voice to girls at this phase of development. THe friends are on the cusp og going to college--high school is behind them, being freshmen is just ahead, and there are a number of crises that are not related to this age--Tibby's sister has a near fatal accident, Carmen's mother has a baby, Lena's grandfather dies and her father brings his mother to their house. But a number of things are v...more

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Jan 26, 2011 Melissa rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult

This book improved itself compared to the 2nd one in the series. As the third book its not really necessary to read the other two first, but it does help provide background for this one. The most important thing is that Bridget, Tibby, Carmen, and Lena have been friends all their lives. On the verge of beginning summer two years ago, they discovered magical pants (ok so not really magical, but astounding) that fit all of them perfectly. With these pants they spent each summer going through diffi...more This book improved itself compared to the 2nd one in the series. As the third book its not really necessary to read the other two first, but it does help provide background for this one. The most important thing is that Bridget, Tibby, Carmen, and Lena have been friends all their lives. On the verge of beginning summer two years ago, they discovered magical pants (ok so not really magical, but astounding) that fit all of them perfectly. With these pants they spent each summer going through difficulties, finding love, and remaining true to their friendships.

It is the third summer and once again the girls are all finding their way. Bridget is at a soccer camp where much to her surprise, a fellow counselor just happens to be a guy she slept with two years ago. She has to discover her true feelings about him and not crash into a mess like she did the previous year. Tibby struggles with her feelings for her friend Brian and those towards her family. When her sister has an accident, it really makes her reevaluate how she feels about everyone. Carmen is not sure where she fits in when she learns that her mom is having a baby with her new husband. While she ponders this and cares for Lena's grandmother, she meets a pretty stupendous guy who she is afraid to let know the real her. Lastly, Lena wants to go to art school and has to struggle to reach that dream when her father says no after stumbling in to her nude model class. She also still pines away for Kostos.

The girls were developed much better in this book. My only complaint on characterization would be Lena's father. Since he is constantly referred to as Greek and compared with that heritage, it seems very surprising to me that he would deny his daughter art school based on nude models. There is just too much wonderful artwork from that culture for it to be believable. An outstanding character on the other side, would be Lena's grandmother. Bashares did a great job of expressing her grief and pain at all the recent adjustments the poor woman had to make.

The writing has improved and is not quite as juvenile as it was in the second book. Its still wholly appropriate for young adults, but regular adults can enjoy it too.

There's only one more book in the series so I'll probably end up reading it. Its a good look back on how it felt to be a teenager.

Girls in Pants
Copyright 2005
338 pages

Review by M. Reynard 2011 (less)

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Jun 04, 2012 Jackie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: ya-fiction, friendship, summer, coming-of-age, romance

As the third summer with the pants looms, what lies ahead will be a surprise to all.

Lena: loses at love, wins, and loses again...to the unthinkable. But, she immerses herself in her art and she fights a battle with her strict parents in which she comes out a winner, in her eyes and in her parent's hearts.

Brigid: Finds the love for soccer again, signs up to be a coach in Pennsylvania and finds the unexpected: Erik. He has a girlfriend, she resigns herself to being his friend and finds it wonder...more

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Feb 05, 2012 Nur Fadilla Octavianasari rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: borrowed-rented, read-in-2012, translation, teenlit

well, meet again with the September Girl - Lena, Tibby, Carmen, Bridget.
I like this series so much, apalagi yang ini. setelah seri ke-2nya yang banyakan datar dan bikin bete karna keajaiban celana persaudaraan ilang. di seri ke-3nya ini celana persaudaraan seakan menunjukkan kembali tajinya *lah*. Kali ini mereka disibukkan dengan hal2 yang berbau kelulusan dan tentu saja melanjutkan ke Universitas dan itu berarti mereka harus pindah dan berpisah karena tujuan mereka yang berbeda2.

Lena: setelah...more

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