Review of the Book Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

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Book Review

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Ann Brashares

Drama, Romance

Credits

Readability Historic period Range

12 and upward

Publisher

Delacorte Printing Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random Business firm Children's Books

Awards

2002 ALA Best Books for Young Adults, Regional awards in Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, Pacific Northwest Readers Choice, Arizona, and Colorado from 2002 to 2004

Twelvemonth Published

2003

Book Review

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares has been reviewed by Focus on the Family'due south spousal relationship and parenting magazine.

Plot Summary

Four shut friends, separated during the summer before their 16th birthdays, utilize letters and a pair of jeans passed from daughter to girl to keep their friendship alive. Lena visits her grandparents in Hellenic republic. Bridget attends a soccer camp. Carmen attempts to cope with her father's impending remarriage. Tibby develops a friendship with a younger girl who has leukemia.

Christian Behavior

Before meals, Carmen's begetter — who is living with his fiancée and her teenage children — joins hands with them and says grace. The father and fiancée are married later on in a Christian church. God is present through cultural or ceremonial events (holiday, grace earlier meals, weddings, baptisms), except in Carmen's life where He does not appear to be present. Carmen apologizes to God when she takes His name in vain. However, she refuses to pray when she's miserable and ashamed because she doesn't want God to think of her every bit the girl who simply prays when she wants something. The Lord's name is taken in vain over 25 times.

Other Belief Systems

Authority Roles

The girls' parents are mostly absent-minded, ineffectual or the source of the trouble. In this teen world, friends provide the needed back up and guidance. Serious consequences or discipline for misbehavior are not enforced. The girls come up and get with little parental supervision and sometimes without parental noesis.

Profanity & Violence

Profanity, a few coarse references to torso parts and a crude joke. No violence.

Sexual Content

The kissing scenes are intense and involve body contact. Kissing is viewed merely every bit a pleasant pastime. Talked nigh, but not detailed — Lena's 14-yr-old sister, Effie, spends a lot of her free time kissing a young Greek. Nudity (skinny dipping) is included, and there is also a sex scene betwixt 15-year-former Bridget and the higher-aged coach she seduces at her soccer camp. The clarification of the event is not explicit, and the text fast-frontward to scenes of the daughter'due south sadness and bewilderment.

While those scenes could serve to warn teens, earlier scenes, filled with bright descriptions of Bridget's powerful feelings and provocative deportment read like a "how-to seduce a male" manual. While there is regret over losing her virginity, information technology'southward simply considering she'southward besides young, and the girl says her sexual misstep is "fixed" when her friend shows upwardly at the army camp to support her.

Discussion Topics

Additional Comments

Trespassing: Breaking and entering a gym occurs twice — although stealing is not involved.

Lying, not correcting serious misunderstandings, underage drinking, emotional wounds of teen sex and risky behavior — mixing drinking and kissing, going places solitary late at dark, pond in the ocean alone, sleeping lonely at night on the embankment.

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