

Lena is experiencing her own struggles with romance in Greece she doesn't trust men, but family friend Kostos, who happens to be both charming and attractive, has a crush on her. Eric is older, but he also is interested in Bridget, though he has some mixed feelings about their relationship. Meanwhile, Bridget is in Mexico, lusting after her hot soccer coach, Eric. Carmen is enraged that her father has made so many changes without telling her, and immediately begins to rebel. Carmen expects to visit her dad and to have some quality time, but it turns out that her dad has been keeping a secret – he has a new fiancée, who has two teenaged kids. The narration begins with Carmen, who introduces the pants and their magic, and then begins to tell the story of her summer in South Carolina. The story is told by four narrators – Carmen, who finds the pants and who is going to South Carolina to stay with her dad for the summer Bridget, a soccer star who is going to soccer camp in Mexico Lena, who is visiting her grandparents in Greece and Tibby, who is staying home in Bethesda, Maryland to work at a drug store while her friends are gone. As the girls separate for the summer, they each experience their own struggles but are given strength by the pants, which they ship back and forth from Mexico to Maryland to Greece to South Carolina. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is the first book in a series by Ann Brashares about four teenaged friends, Bridget, Tibby, Lena, and Carmen, who are bonded by their love for each other and a pair of magical thrift store pants, that miraculously fit all of them despite their dramatically different body types.
