Brashares, Ann. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood. NY: Delacorte Press, 2003. 373 pages. (Fiction Series)Just like in the first book, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, the main characters are Carman (Carma), Tibby (Tib), Lena (Len), and Bridget (Bee). The story takes place in Maryland, during their last summer at home until they move out to college. They decided that everyone was going to stay home for the summer and get jobs to try on the pants when they weren’t traveling. Tibby had already planned to go to a film class in Virginia for most of the summer, but the rest were going to stay home. All of a sudden, Bee decided to go to Burgess, Alabama to see her grandmother who she hadn’t seen till her mother died. Bee wanted to find out more about her mother and find herself again because she wasn’t herself. She went so fast last year, forgetting about many things-didn’t stop and take everything in and now everything had caught up to her at once. Bee quite soccer right when scouts for college teams were all over her wanting her in their school and was unhealthy and gaining weight now. They take the pants out and hope they can do the same magic they did last summer. They always keep in touch in their hardest moments of the summer and hope that they will still have their friendship next year in college. This summer, like all the summers, changes their lives!
I would recommend this book to another person my age or older. If a younger person read this book, I think it would be hard for them to grasp all of what is going on. When you read there always is an image in my head because it is written so well and has had a lot of thought put into it. Every little detail in the book leads to something at the end both good and bad. I like the way the author, Ann Brashares, wrote the book so that the four friends were each different in their own way. If their mothers hadn’t met while they were pregnant, they would have probably never even met each other in everyday life. I have read this book about two times, and it hasn’t gotten boring yet, and I think it will take me a lot of reading it over and over to get bored with it.
Reviewed by: IrishDancer64
