The sisterhood of the traveling pants.

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Label

The sisterhood of the traveling pants.

Statement of responsibility

Ann Brashares

Creator

• trueBrashares, Ann
• Brashares, Ann

Subject

• trueRealistic fiction
• Conduct of life -- Fiction
• trueTeenage girls -- Friendship
• trueInterpersonal relations
• trueTeenagers
• trueTeen chick lit
• Friendship -- Fiction
• trueGrowing up
• trueTeenage boy/girl relations
• trueBest friends
• trueComing-of-age stories
• Best friends -- Fiction
• trueTeenage girls -- Personal conduct
• trueFriendship
• trueBlue jeans
• trueFamilies
• trueSummer
• Jeans (Clothing) -- Fiction
• trueBooks to movies

Genre

• Fiction
• trueTeen chick lit
• trueRealistic fiction
• trueBooks to movies
• trueComing-of-age stories

Language

eng

Summary

During summer break, longtime friends Lena, Tibby, Carmen, and Bridget each embark on adventures that they share with each other through a pair of jeans that they have decided will be worn by all and so will absorb all of their stories

Member of

• trueSisterhood of the Traveling Pants series

Storyline

• trueIntricately plotted
• trueCharacter-driven

Tone

• trueBittersweet
• trueMoving
• trueFunny
• trueAngst-filled
• trueRomantic

Writing style

• trueEngaging

Character

• trueLikeable
• trueRelatable

Award

• Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Maryland), High School, 2003.
• Book Sense Book of the Year for Children's Literature, 2002.
• Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (Rosie Award), 2004.
• Garden State Teen Book Award (New Jersey), Fiction (Grades 9-12), 2004.
• Gateway Readers Award (Missouri), 2004.
• Heartland Award, 2003.
• Iowa Teen Award, 2004.
• Rhode Island Teen Book Award, 2002.
• Sequoyah Book Awards (Oklahoma), Young Adult Books, 2004.
• Young Hoosier Book Award, Middle Books, 2004.
• Young Reader's Choice Award (Pacific Northwest), Senior, 2004.
• Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth, 2001
• YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 2009
• YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, 2002

Cataloging source

NjBwBT

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• 7-9
• 600

Intended audience source

• Baker & Taylor
• Lexile

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

600

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 9
• 12

Series statement

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series

Series volume

0001

Target audience

juvenile