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06/18/07
Brashares grows out of Pants [USA Today]
Ann Brashares, author of the popular Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series for young adults, matures as a writer and looks toward an older audience with THE LAST SUMMER (OF YOU AND ME).
More thoughtful than Traveling Pants and most chick lit, The Last Summer is as much a treatise on loyalty and letting go of childish ways as it is on a summer of love.
Sisters Alice and Riley and their friend Paul have known each other since childhood. Their families always spend summers on Fire Island. But Paul and Riley are now 24, and Alice is 21. Sleepovers aren't what they used to be.
Paul, whose father died of a drug over-dose, is wealthy. But a neglectful mother and a longing for a more stable home life have taught him what all the money in the world can't buy. He can't help but punish the people he loves by treating them brutally.
Riley is pretty much who she was as a teenager. She stills works as a lifeguard, and her sexuality is ambiguous.
Alice, as the youngest, has always feared that Riley and Paul will leave her behind. She's devoted to her sister and struggles with a growing sexual attraction to Paul. One sister will fall madly, romantically in love with Paul. One will always consider him her best friend. But sisters and secrets override all other relationships in this sentimental coming-of-age novel.
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06/18/07
Fun in the Sun [People]
Your need-to-know guide to the season's hottest books, music, movies and gadgets 8 great beach reads. These books are easy to get lost in - just remember to reapply sunscreen! Romance: THE LAST SUMMER (OF YOU AND ME) By Ann Brashares. Ann Brashares, author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, writes a novel for adults.
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06/18/07
What To Do This Month [Redbook]
When summertime neighbors Alice and Paul realize their feeling go deeper than friendship, they're afraid to share news of their clandestine affair with Riley, Alice's sister and Paul's best friend. But then a darker more tragic secret threatens to come between them. The page-turning pace of Ann Brashares' THE LAST SUMMER (OF YOU AND ME) makes it a perfect beach read.
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06/18/07
What's New in [EW]
THE LAST SUMMER (OF YOU AND ME) By Ann Brashares
The author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants tries a heavier wardrobe. Two twenty something sisters and Paul, their troubled, rich pal, grapple with serious issues: sex, career and illness. SOURCE OF ANGST: While Paul and bookish Alice have a secret affair, athletic, once-confident Riley finds herself adrift. BOTTOM LINE: Though its Terns of Endearment trajectory can feel manipulative, Brashares' writing is natural, insightful and affecting.
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06/16/07
INTO IT: Ann Brashares [Christian Science Monitor]
We ask the author of 'The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants' what she's reading, watching, and listening to.
- Reading
In the last month I read two books I absolutely loved. The first was Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. It has an unusual narrative structure, but do not be put off by it. It is a brilliant, funny, amazing book. The second was Lonesome Dove [by Larry McMurtry]. I was moved to go out and buy it when my trusted friend (and literary agent) said, 'You haven't read Lonesome Dove? I am jealous.' Now I, in turn, am jealous of all of you who have yet to experience the pleasure of it.
- Watching
I loved the movie Junebug. For a while, I would not shut up about it. I don't exactly know why I loved it. I just did. I am also attached to a series called Foyle's War. It's a detective show based in England in the Second World War. I think the writing and acting - the whole show actually - is quite wonderful. I watched Rushmore again recently. That's one of my all-time favorites.
- Listening to
I'm enjoying Beethoven's violin sonatas lately - especially the Kreutzer. And also Brahms. I've always loved that first sonata for piano and violin. I never tire of The Marriage of Figaro, especially the second and third acts. When I run I listen to Led Zeppelin, John Prine, Mos Def, Wilco, The Rolling Stones' Factory Girl is one of the great songs for running. I've also got a lot of '70s disco tunes on my iPod. Thelma Houston's Don't Leave Me This Way gives a burst of adrenaline every time.
Ann Brashares' new novel, 'The Last Summer (of You and Me),' will be published by Riverhead on June 5.
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06/15/07
What's Sizzling This Summer [Cosmopolitan]
The hottest things to see, try, buy, and listen to for the next three months. Check them out.
An unputdownable beach book calls for love, deceit and sex. And THE LAST SUMMER (OF YOU AND ME), by Ann Brashares, has all those elements. The page-turner follows two 20something sisters as they cross the threshold into adulthood and try to make summer romance last all year.
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12/01/06
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series
Delacorte Press to publish the final installment in Ann Brashares' #1 New York Times bestselling The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series
Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, will publish FOREVER IN BLUE, the fourth and final novel in Ann Brashares' #1 New York Times bestselling series The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, in a one-day national laydown on January 9, 2007. The highly-anticipated novel will be released with a 500,000 copy first printing and supported by an unprecedented marketing and publicity campaign. An exclusive chapter of FOREVER IN BLUE was first made available in a trade paperback edition of Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood released this fall.
'With fraying hems, the Traveling Pants are back, said Beverly Horowitz, VP & Publisher of the Bantam Delacorte Dell Young Readers Group. 'Ann Brashares' beloved characters share their hopes and dreams in a dazzling, fearless novel that will forever change their lives.'
FOREVER IN BLUE finds the four childhood friends Lena, Tibby, Carmen and Bridget having just completed their freshman year in college. This time the summer brings new surprises in love and relationships for the girls and the Sisterhood saga is brought to a surprising conclusion. 'Lively prose, snappy dialogue and a complex intertwining of four stories mark this outstanding series,' Kirkus Reviews writes.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, the first book in the series, was published by Delacorte Press in September 2001, and received starred reviews and praise from critics across the country. A heartwarming story of a friendship between four girls and the pair of thrift-store jeans that ties them all together struck a chord, and Brashares quickly earned a devoted following among female readers from pre-teens to adults. The book landed on the New York Times bestseller list shortly after publication and sales continued to gather steam.
Two additional novels about the girls followed: The Second Summer of the Sisterhood in 2003 and Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood in 2005. Both were instant national bestsellers. In June 2005, Alcon Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures brought Brashares first novel to the silver screen with their film adaptation of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. The movie's release drove the books back up to the top of the bestseller charts. There are more than 8 million copies of the Sisterhood novels in print in North America and the books have become an international publishing phenomenon as well: foreign rights have been sold in 38 countries as far reaching as Iceland, Thailand and the Ukraine.
The series currently remains on the New York Times bestseller list, where it has spent more than 80 weeks.
Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers is an imprint of Random House Children's Books, the world's largest English-language children's trade book publisher. Creating books for toddlers through young adult readers, in all formats from board books to activity books to picture books to novels and narrative nonfiction, the imprints of Random House Children's Books offer publishing programs that bring together world-famous franchise characters, multimillion-copy series, and top-flight award-winning authors and illustrators. Random House Children's Books is a division of Random House, Inc., whose parent company is Bertelsmann AG, a leading international media company.
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01/01/05
Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
Delacorte Press publishes #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Brashares' third novel - Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House, is pleased to announce the publication of Ann Brashares much-anticipated third novel GIRLS IN PANTS: THE THIRD SUMMER OF THE SISTERHOOD. A national laydown date of January 25, 2005 has been set for this latest title in the bestselling Sisterhood books that began with the 2001 publication of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. GIRLS IN PANTS will have a first printing of 250,000 copies and will carry a suggested retail price of $16.95.
Female fans of all ages have embraced Brashares' poignant, humorous, and captivating novels about the friendship of four teenage girls, and the pair of thrift-store jeans that fits each girl perfectly. The traveling pants keep them connected during the summer months when each is off forging their own summers of self-discovery. Both The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, praised by USA Today as 'funny, perceptive and moving, and its successor The Second Summer of the Sisterhood received much critical acclaim, with comparison to the widely popular The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood was also the first young adult novel selected as a Good Morning America 'Read This!' Book Club pick. With a combined total of over 1.5 million copies in print, both titles have appeared on The New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists, and foreign rights to both books have been sold in more than 35 countries.
GIRLS IN PANTS gives readers the third summer of Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget - four best friends who are embarking upon their final summer together before heading off to college. The foursome, as always, will resurrect the pants once again to record and share the memories that will be created over the summer months. Critics are already raving about this latest Sisterhood novel. In a starred review, Booklist praised Ann Brashares as 'an author who encourages her readers to look, feel, trust, and empathize with her characters,' and Publishers Weekly proclaimed that the girls are once again wonderfully drawn.
Random House will support the launch of GIRLS IN PANTS with a major national marketing and publicity campaign including a 10-city book tour that will introduce Brashares to fans in Philadelphia, Nashville, Dayton, Austin, Chicago, Milwaukee, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit the official Sisterhood website at www.SisterhoodCentral.com.
The year of the traveling pants begins on January 25, 2005 with the publication of GIRLS IN PANTS: THE THIRD SUMMER OF THE SISTERHOOD, and the simultaneous publication of the audiobook from Listening Library. Mark your calendar today.
Delacorte Press is an imprint of Random House, Inc., whose parent company is Bertelsmann AG. Visit the official Sisterhood website at www.SisterhoodCentral.com.
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11/23/04
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
Ann Brashares' bestselling novel
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood - now available for the first time in paperback
Delacorte Press is pleased to announce the December 28th publication of the trade paperback Readers Circle edition of THE SECOND SUMMER OF THE SISTERHOOD. This bestselling companion to the 2001 runaway bestseller The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants will have a first printing of 200,000 copies and carries a suggested retail price of $8.95. A chapter excerpt from the highly-anticipated Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood, to be published January 25, 2005, will be included in the paperback. The Readers Circle program includes quality, award-winning literature perfect for book group discussions, and includes a readers' guide complete with author interviews, discussion questions, author biographies, and other relevant information that provides information to make book clubs a success.
THE SECOND SUMMER OF THE SISTERHOOD made its publishing debut in April 2003, and immediately catapulted to the top of The New York Times Bestseller list, where it remained for 44 weeks. With close to 600,000 copies in print, the hardcover edition was an overnight success and garnered additional die-hard sisterhood fans. Critics and readers alike have embraced Ann Brashares' remarkable novels in the U.S. and overseas, where the book has been published in 24 countries and 26 languages.
The sisterhood of Lena, Bridget, Tibby, and Carmen picks up with the traveling pants as they prepare to spend their second summer apart in THE SECOND SUMMER OF THE SISTERHOOD. Bridget is off to Alabama to uncover her mother's past and to rediscover herself; Lena must deal with her feelings for Kostos; Carmen must come to terms with her mom's budding social life; and Tibby heads to film school where she finds herself dealing with questionable new friends and a developing relationship with Brian. Through it all, the traveling pants keep the girls connected.
The third book in the series, Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood, will release with a national laydown on January 25, 2005. The film version of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is scheduled for a summer 2005 release and stars Amber Tamblyn (Joan of Arcadia) and Alexis Bledel (Gilmore Girls). For more information on Ann Brashares and the sisterhood books, visit www.SisterhoodCentral.com.
Brashares grows out of Pants [USA Today]
Ann Brashares, author of the popular Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series for young adults, matures as a writer and looks toward an older audience with THE LAST SUMMER (OF YOU AND ME).
More thoughtful than Traveling Pants and most chick lit, The Last Summer is as much a treatise on loyalty and letting go of childish ways as it is on a summer of love.
Sisters Alice and Riley and their friend Paul have known each other since childhood. Their families always spend summers on Fire Island. But Paul and Riley are now 24, and Alice is 21. Sleepovers aren't what they used to be.
Paul, whose father died of a drug over-dose, is wealthy. But a neglectful mother and a longing for a more stable home life have taught him what all the money in the world can't buy. He can't help but punish the people he loves by treating them brutally.
Riley is pretty much who she was as a teenager. She stills works as a lifeguard, and her sexuality is ambiguous.
Alice, as the youngest, has always feared that Riley and Paul will leave her behind. She's devoted to her sister and struggles with a growing sexual attraction to Paul. One sister will fall madly, romantically in love with Paul. One will always consider him her best friend. But sisters and secrets override all other relationships in this sentimental coming-of-age novel.
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06/18/07
Fun in the Sun [People]
Your need-to-know guide to the season's hottest books, music, movies and gadgets 8 great beach reads. These books are easy to get lost in - just remember to reapply sunscreen! Romance: THE LAST SUMMER (OF YOU AND ME) By Ann Brashares. Ann Brashares, author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, writes a novel for adults.
Download PDF
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06/18/07
What To Do This Month [Redbook]
When summertime neighbors Alice and Paul realize their feeling go deeper than friendship, they're afraid to share news of their clandestine affair with Riley, Alice's sister and Paul's best friend. But then a darker more tragic secret threatens to come between them. The page-turning pace of Ann Brashares' THE LAST SUMMER (OF YOU AND ME) makes it a perfect beach read.
Download PDF
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06/18/07
What's New in [EW]
THE LAST SUMMER (OF YOU AND ME) By Ann Brashares
The author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants tries a heavier wardrobe. Two twenty something sisters and Paul, their troubled, rich pal, grapple with serious issues: sex, career and illness. SOURCE OF ANGST: While Paul and bookish Alice have a secret affair, athletic, once-confident Riley finds herself adrift. BOTTOM LINE: Though its Terns of Endearment trajectory can feel manipulative, Brashares' writing is natural, insightful and affecting.
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06/16/07
INTO IT: Ann Brashares [Christian Science Monitor]
We ask the author of 'The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants' what she's reading, watching, and listening to.
- Reading
In the last month I read two books I absolutely loved. The first was Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. It has an unusual narrative structure, but do not be put off by it. It is a brilliant, funny, amazing book. The second was Lonesome Dove [by Larry McMurtry]. I was moved to go out and buy it when my trusted friend (and literary agent) said, 'You haven't read Lonesome Dove? I am jealous.' Now I, in turn, am jealous of all of you who have yet to experience the pleasure of it.
- Watching
I loved the movie Junebug. For a while, I would not shut up about it. I don't exactly know why I loved it. I just did. I am also attached to a series called Foyle's War. It's a detective show based in England in the Second World War. I think the writing and acting - the whole show actually - is quite wonderful. I watched Rushmore again recently. That's one of my all-time favorites.
- Listening to
I'm enjoying Beethoven's violin sonatas lately - especially the Kreutzer. And also Brahms. I've always loved that first sonata for piano and violin. I never tire of The Marriage of Figaro, especially the second and third acts. When I run I listen to Led Zeppelin, John Prine, Mos Def, Wilco, The Rolling Stones' Factory Girl is one of the great songs for running. I've also got a lot of '70s disco tunes on my iPod. Thelma Houston's Don't Leave Me This Way gives a burst of adrenaline every time.
Ann Brashares' new novel, 'The Last Summer (of You and Me),' will be published by Riverhead on June 5.
Download PDF
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06/15/07
What's Sizzling This Summer [Cosmopolitan]
The hottest things to see, try, buy, and listen to for the next three months. Check them out.
An unputdownable beach book calls for love, deceit and sex. And THE LAST SUMMER (OF YOU AND ME), by Ann Brashares, has all those elements. The page-turner follows two 20something sisters as they cross the threshold into adulthood and try to make summer romance last all year.
Download PDF
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12/01/06
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series
Delacorte Press to publish the final installment in Ann Brashares' #1 New York Times bestselling The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series
Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, will publish FOREVER IN BLUE, the fourth and final novel in Ann Brashares' #1 New York Times bestselling series The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, in a one-day national laydown on January 9, 2007. The highly-anticipated novel will be released with a 500,000 copy first printing and supported by an unprecedented marketing and publicity campaign. An exclusive chapter of FOREVER IN BLUE was first made available in a trade paperback edition of Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood released this fall.
'With fraying hems, the Traveling Pants are back, said Beverly Horowitz, VP & Publisher of the Bantam Delacorte Dell Young Readers Group. 'Ann Brashares' beloved characters share their hopes and dreams in a dazzling, fearless novel that will forever change their lives.'
FOREVER IN BLUE finds the four childhood friends Lena, Tibby, Carmen and Bridget having just completed their freshman year in college. This time the summer brings new surprises in love and relationships for the girls and the Sisterhood saga is brought to a surprising conclusion. 'Lively prose, snappy dialogue and a complex intertwining of four stories mark this outstanding series,' Kirkus Reviews writes.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, the first book in the series, was published by Delacorte Press in September 2001, and received starred reviews and praise from critics across the country. A heartwarming story of a friendship between four girls and the pair of thrift-store jeans that ties them all together struck a chord, and Brashares quickly earned a devoted following among female readers from pre-teens to adults. The book landed on the New York Times bestseller list shortly after publication and sales continued to gather steam.
Two additional novels about the girls followed: The Second Summer of the Sisterhood in 2003 and Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood in 2005. Both were instant national bestsellers. In June 2005, Alcon Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures brought Brashares first novel to the silver screen with their film adaptation of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. The movie's release drove the books back up to the top of the bestseller charts. There are more than 8 million copies of the Sisterhood novels in print in North America and the books have become an international publishing phenomenon as well: foreign rights have been sold in 38 countries as far reaching as Iceland, Thailand and the Ukraine.
The series currently remains on the New York Times bestseller list, where it has spent more than 80 weeks.
Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers is an imprint of Random House Children's Books, the world's largest English-language children's trade book publisher. Creating books for toddlers through young adult readers, in all formats from board books to activity books to picture books to novels and narrative nonfiction, the imprints of Random House Children's Books offer publishing programs that bring together world-famous franchise characters, multimillion-copy series, and top-flight award-winning authors and illustrators. Random House Children's Books is a division of Random House, Inc., whose parent company is Bertelsmann AG, a leading international media company.
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01/01/05
Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
Delacorte Press publishes #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Brashares' third novel - Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House, is pleased to announce the publication of Ann Brashares much-anticipated third novel GIRLS IN PANTS: THE THIRD SUMMER OF THE SISTERHOOD. A national laydown date of January 25, 2005 has been set for this latest title in the bestselling Sisterhood books that began with the 2001 publication of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. GIRLS IN PANTS will have a first printing of 250,000 copies and will carry a suggested retail price of $16.95.
Female fans of all ages have embraced Brashares' poignant, humorous, and captivating novels about the friendship of four teenage girls, and the pair of thrift-store jeans that fits each girl perfectly. The traveling pants keep them connected during the summer months when each is off forging their own summers of self-discovery. Both The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, praised by USA Today as 'funny, perceptive and moving, and its successor The Second Summer of the Sisterhood received much critical acclaim, with comparison to the widely popular The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood was also the first young adult novel selected as a Good Morning America 'Read This!' Book Club pick. With a combined total of over 1.5 million copies in print, both titles have appeared on The New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists, and foreign rights to both books have been sold in more than 35 countries.
GIRLS IN PANTS gives readers the third summer of Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget - four best friends who are embarking upon their final summer together before heading off to college. The foursome, as always, will resurrect the pants once again to record and share the memories that will be created over the summer months. Critics are already raving about this latest Sisterhood novel. In a starred review, Booklist praised Ann Brashares as 'an author who encourages her readers to look, feel, trust, and empathize with her characters,' and Publishers Weekly proclaimed that the girls are once again wonderfully drawn.
Random House will support the launch of GIRLS IN PANTS with a major national marketing and publicity campaign including a 10-city book tour that will introduce Brashares to fans in Philadelphia, Nashville, Dayton, Austin, Chicago, Milwaukee, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit the official Sisterhood website at www.SisterhoodCentral.com.
The year of the traveling pants begins on January 25, 2005 with the publication of GIRLS IN PANTS: THE THIRD SUMMER OF THE SISTERHOOD, and the simultaneous publication of the audiobook from Listening Library. Mark your calendar today.
Delacorte Press is an imprint of Random House, Inc., whose parent company is Bertelsmann AG. Visit the official Sisterhood website at www.SisterhoodCentral.com.
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11/23/04
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
Ann Brashares' bestselling novel
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood - now available for the first time in paperback
Delacorte Press is pleased to announce the December 28th publication of the trade paperback Readers Circle edition of THE SECOND SUMMER OF THE SISTERHOOD. This bestselling companion to the 2001 runaway bestseller The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants will have a first printing of 200,000 copies and carries a suggested retail price of $8.95. A chapter excerpt from the highly-anticipated Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood, to be published January 25, 2005, will be included in the paperback. The Readers Circle program includes quality, award-winning literature perfect for book group discussions, and includes a readers' guide complete with author interviews, discussion questions, author biographies, and other relevant information that provides information to make book clubs a success.
THE SECOND SUMMER OF THE SISTERHOOD made its publishing debut in April 2003, and immediately catapulted to the top of The New York Times Bestseller list, where it remained for 44 weeks. With close to 600,000 copies in print, the hardcover edition was an overnight success and garnered additional die-hard sisterhood fans. Critics and readers alike have embraced Ann Brashares' remarkable novels in the U.S. and overseas, where the book has been published in 24 countries and 26 languages.
The sisterhood of Lena, Bridget, Tibby, and Carmen picks up with the traveling pants as they prepare to spend their second summer apart in THE SECOND SUMMER OF THE SISTERHOOD. Bridget is off to Alabama to uncover her mother's past and to rediscover herself; Lena must deal with her feelings for Kostos; Carmen must come to terms with her mom's budding social life; and Tibby heads to film school where she finds herself dealing with questionable new friends and a developing relationship with Brian. Through it all, the traveling pants keep the girls connected.
The third book in the series, Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood, will release with a national laydown on January 25, 2005. The film version of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is scheduled for a summer 2005 release and stars Amber Tamblyn (Joan of Arcadia) and Alexis Bledel (Gilmore Girls). For more information on Ann Brashares and the sisterhood books, visit www.SisterhoodCentral.com.
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