The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is a novel written in 2001 by Ann Brashares. The story is about four best friends Lena Kaligaris, Tibby Rollins, Bridget Vreeland, and Carmen Lowell, who are about to spend their first summer apart in all of their sixteen years. Then, when a magical pair of jeans comes into their life, their summer turns upside down.They find a pair of pants that fit all four, even though they are all different sizes. To keep in touch with each other during their summer vacation they pass the pants along. First they go to Lena, who is in Greece with her grandparents. Lena sends the pants to Tibby, who is stuck at home. Then Tibby sends them to Carmen, who is with her dad in South Carolina for the summer. Then she sends them to Bridget, who is at soccer camp in Baja, California. And then it goes back the other way: Bridget to Carmen to Tibby to Lena. When each wears the pants, they gain insight into her life and is emboldened to change it. Each of the girls' stories is different and fits their unique character.

Lena "Lenny" Kaligaris, is a beautiful, quiet, and shy artist of Greek heritage. She has a younger sister, Effie.

When she goes to Santorini, Greece, to visit her grandparents for the first time, she meets the irresistible Kostos . At first she dislikes Kostos, but even cold Lena can't ignore him. After he walks in on her swimming naked in a pond, she makes a wrong assumption and almost ruins anything that might have happens between them, but she gets a second chance. She eventually got all the courage she could muster and told Kostos her true feelings for him.

Tabitha Anastasia "Tibby" Tomko-Rollins is the rebellious daughter of former radicals. She is extremely interested in filmmaking. Tibby lives with her parents and two younger siblings, Nicky and Katherine. She sets out to make a film about losers (her own genre, called the "suckumentary"), and instead finds her world turned upside down by a twelve-year-old girl with leukemia named Bailey Graffman. Bailey teaches her that everyone has a little "loser" in them and shows her how to look on the bright side of life. Bailey also shows Tibby that not everyone is how they appear on the outside, but the closer the two become, the closer comes a relapse of cancer that Bailey won't survive.

Bridget