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The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants #2)

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Can't wait for the next installment of the Pants? Check out the SPECIAL EDITION of The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, in stores now!
Inside you'll find an exclusive "Who's Your Soul Mate Quiz" and a sneak peak at the third book, Girls in Pants.

With a bit of last summer's sand in the pockets, the Traveling Pants and the Sisterhood that wears them embark on their 16th summ...more
Paperback, 374 pages
Published April 22nd 2003 by Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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Victoria
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Cindy
Cindy rated it 2 of 5 stars
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Rachel
Rachel rated it 4 of 5 stars
so far i really enjoy this book! it is one of my favorites<3 i would recommend it to Lady's 13 and up, because there are some things that are just not for younger people! once you read this book it will just remind you of friendship,love,compassion,relationships, and so much more! this book is just really touching! hope you like my review and i hope you read this book!
Cassie
Cassie rated it 4 of 5 stars
Better than the first. The ending made me angry and sad though. Poor, poor Lena.
eleonora -
Non pensate di prendere in mano questo romanzo a vent'anni, perché vi cercherete qualcosa che probabilmente non c'è. Se però lo leggete, sempre a vent'anni, ricordandovi di quando ne avevate dodici o tredici e le vostre amiche erano le persone più importanti sulla faccia della terra, allora potete. Ma non se con queste vostre amiche è andata a finire male e ne serbate un cattivo ricordo: se non portate rancore, però, potete leggerlo.
Si parla di amicizia, quell'amicizia alla quale basta un n...more
Jessica
Jessica rated it 3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for: fans of blue jeans
Shelves: youngadult
I read this book because I liked the first one so much. Also, the teaser at the end of the first book was pretty interesting.

I liked it when I finished it but thinking about it, I am a little disappointed. It seems that the major flaws that the girls had in the first book still afflict them in this one. HOWEVER, I really liked that not everyone had a perfectly happy ending. Not everyone got everything they expected and all were not smiley and hugging. This one was well-written a...more
Adriana
This book was about how four girls Lena, Tibby, Carmen and Bridget spend their summers apart from each other but still keeping contact through a pair of jeans. These jeans have been through a lot last summer but this summer they add new experiences and events to them. Through these jeans they learn many things like how to keep a long term relationship and even helps them "fit in" with certain kinds of people while thier in camp. Each girl goes to a different place but the jeans travel ...more
Lani
Lani rated it 4 of 5 stars
Shelves: chicklit, kids, own
I wasn't terribly impressed with the first book, but I was interested enough in the characters to want to read more. I am so glad I did!

This book seemed more realistically teenaged-girl, both the good and bad. The girls had to face things in their lives that they could avoid as children, and came out stronger.

Though other people criticized the way that Bee changed, I thought it was actually a pretty accurate depiction of a girl hurt by her early sexual experience. Teenage...more
Diah Sri
love this books... I wishhh.. I've read this book 15 years ago, would've help me trough my teenage life and how to embrace adulthood with all of the pain and sorrow..., This books show you that it is ok to make mistake as long as you have the guts to admit it and try to correct it as best as u can...
I wish I could be more like bree, inspite of the lost she have been trough, she still have enough courage to open her heart and embrace what ever come on her way...

and lena is one l...more
Christian Arias
There are four girls in this book who share a pair of pants. The girls were all different sizes and shapes, yet the pants fit each of them. Before the traveling pants, the girls did not have any other way of being together when they were apart, so the pants brought them closer together whenever they could not contact each other.
What I learned from this book is that no matter how far you are from someone in your family, they will always b...more
Priscilla
Priscilla rated it 4 of 5 stars
Shelves: 2nd-quarter
It's the second summer of the pants, and man have things changed since last summer! (Warning, this review contains many spiolers. So, do not read if you want to read the book or is reading the first book, or is reading the second book! Don't say I didn't warn you!) OK, back on track. Lena has been dating the guy she fell in love with in Greece named Kostos. But broke up with him in January because she really missed him, and apparently wants to belong to herself again, and not Kostos, she wants t...more
Samantha
Lena, Carmen, Bridget and Tibby...4 girls I have come to cherish and call my Best Friends. This book has satisfied me more than many other books have. The pain, the heartbreak, the friendship and love within the story make this a wonderful coming of age book for young girls. Somehow, Ann Brashares manages to stun her readers once more through her writing.

The boys in the book bring mixed emotion with each appearance. Brian remains loyal to Tibby as always. Alex is a troublemaker who Ti...more
Jennifer
Ugh. That’s all I have to say. How could I have possibly liked the first one so much as to want to read a sequel? What happened? The storyline was trite, the characters were empty, the dialogue was cheesy and I was BORED. The second summer sucked. Nobody had really changed since last summer. Tibby made a movie about Bailey at film camp and felt bad when she acted like a normal teenager wanting to impress some people thereby shunning a dorky friend. Bridget went on a journey…to Alabama to...more
Erin
Heh, So I had to re-read this one for book club as well so I ended up reading back to back this morning, so set aside 4 and half hours then you will be able to read the first two!

I did not like this one as much as the other one mostly because I had developed perceptions on characters that I kind of found destroyed, I realize that this most probably not the same for other readers but its true for me. The reason that I say that is that to me some characters did not seem as strong as the...more
Jess
Jess rated it 4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for: Teen girls who want an in-depth story to help them with issues in their own lives
The Septembers are back for another summer, still bearing the wounds and lessons of the one before and ready to make more memories worthy of the Travelling Pants...
This was one sequel that didn't disappoint. The story continued with the same themes of friendship and with more life-lessons learned. It follows a similar pattern to that of The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, the first book in the series. Tibby, Lena, Bridget and Carmen encounter problems with love, life and family. It's a...more
Rebecca
Rebecca rated it 3 of 5 stars
Shelves: ya
This book was okay. As with the first book, I feel like they didn't develop the characters at all and I didn't really understand why they do what they did. These books also relies on assuming a lot, which I hate. It's one thing where you can see it on TV or the movies and assume, but reading is a lot different. Just like chatting and email sometimes, it's hard to get attitude out of it, these books remind me of that.

Lena writes the introduction this time and her story is about her and ...more
Kristen C
"In The Second Summer of the Sisterhood“, Bridget, Carmen, Tibby, and Lena are on their second summer as The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Bridget heads off to Alabama. Tibby makes a movie for a film-making program, Carmen stays at home with her mother, and Lena goes through some tough times with her boyfriend Kostos.
Carmen, Lena, Tibby, and Bridget are four close friends who share a pair of jeans in order to feel connected to each other during the summer. While they are apart ...more
Nicole
Nicole rated it 3 of 5 stars
The 2nd Summer of the Sisterhood was an alright book. I didn’t read any of the other books in the series so I cannot compare them. The cover wasn’t as intriguing as it could’ve been. I mean it was nice and cute, and I know I’m not supposed to judge a book by its cover; it was still a bit dull to me. However, I still gave it a shot, and surprisingly, it was good! The book talks about how four girls—Bridget, Lena, Carmen and Tibby, who all fit the same pair a jeans even though they all have variou...more
Laura
Laura rated it 2 of 5 stars
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704isabel
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Erica
Erica rated it 4 of 5 stars
I listened to this on my latest drive across the desert. I picked it because I was in a rotten mood at the library and wanted something fluffy to accompany me on the drive. I read the fist one some years ago and found it just that--fluffy. So I actually quite enjoyed the Second Summer. The story follows four teenage friends--Bridget, Lena, Carmen, and Tibby. I thought the girls' personalities were very diverse and believable. They felt like real teenagers, which a lot of characters in teen...more
Suki
I like the first book of the sisterhood of the traveling pants so i read the second one. The four girls Lena, Tibby, Carmen, and Bridget faces a lot of problems in the summer, more difficult to solve than last summer. They are separated during the summer where Lena falls in love with a boy name Esteban in Greece which is forbidden because of their family tensions. They are like Romeo and Juliet. I think that their love is so romantic and Greece does look so pretty. I wish i could live in Greece ...more
Mireille
I read it in French last spring and thought it was the weakest of the serie (I read the first two books in French and then bought the last ones in English). My favorite character, Bridget, had a mostly boring story and none of the other stories connected with me (though Lena's story is really heartbreaking).

But on re-read, it was like I saw this book in a whole new light (and I don't think it really has to do with reading it in the original language, though that probably helps). The ...more
Jenny
Jenny added it
This book is about four girls, Lena, Tibby, Carmen and Bridget and they have been best friends since they were young. In the first book, they spent their summer together, going on journeys together, but in this book, all of them we're separated during the summer. At times they found it hard to keep track of each other because many of them had their own problems to take care of. Lena meet a boy name Esteban and she falls in love with him, but their love is forbidden because of the generation ri...more
Liana
This book is about four best friends named Carmen, Bridget(Bee), Tibby, and Lena who found a pair of pants at a thrift store and they thought it was miricle that the pants fit them all comfortably and they made a sisterhood about the pants and in the summer they mail the pants around. Carmen is getting frustrated with her mom because her mom is dating a guy from her work named David. Bridget goes to visit her grandmother in Alabama because she found letters from her telling her to visit, but whe...more
Shannon E
Four bestfriends named, Tibby, Carmen, Bridget, and Lena always have dramatic summers, but this Summer is different. This year Tibby leaves to go to college, Bridgit visits her grandmother, and Lena and Carmen stay home. Tibby figures out she has a secret admierer, and is very surprised by who it is. Kostos comes back to the U.S.A and meets up with Lena for the first time in a year. Carmen and her mom both are dating people.Carmen is dating Porter,and her mom is dating David.Overall the gir...more
Ellen Hudson
As utterly amazing as the first book. Sequels rarely live-up to their predecessors, but this one does, in every way. A story so real and heartbreaking that anyone will be brought to tears while reading it.

Tibby, Carmen, Bridget, and Lena are getting ready for another summer, but they still carry scars from the year before. Tibby is attending a summer film program where she is finally forced to deal with her grief over Bailey. Carmen sees her mother fall in love and worries about ...more
Larah
Larah rated it 2 of 5 stars
Recommends it for: Everyone
Tibby Tomko-Rollins, Lena Kaligaris, Carmen Lowell and Bridget Vreeland are best friends who go to different places during the summer. Before they leave, they find a pair of "magic" pants that fit all of them perfectly. They decide to send them to each person as a symbol of their friendship, for two weeks, and write a letter telling how the pants bring them good luck. Bridget goes to a soccer camp in Mexico and she has a crush on the coach Eric and has problems getting over the death o...more
Jamie
This book is a sequel to the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 1. It is about four best friends who have to be apart in the summer but they find a pair of pants that magically fit them all. In this sequel, Bridget tries to find her old self and goes to Alabama to visit her grandmother after finding letters that told her to visit. Carmen is very angry and frustrated at her mom because she is dating a guy who works with her at her job. Lena broke up with her boyfriend from Greece but gets ba...more
Giselle
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood is about 4 best friends Lena, Bridget, Carmen and Tibby. They have a pair of pants that fits them all perfectly and binds them together while they're seperate. Bridget is trying to find her old self so she goes to Alabama to see her grandmother under somebody else. Lena is still trying to get over Kostos her ex-boyfriend who she might still love. Carmen's mother is dating a man named David and Carmen doesn't like that she is always with him. Tibby is ...more
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