the second summer of the sisterhood by ann brashares

They called themselves the Septembers and eventually passed that name down to us. We had a group play date running at least three days a week until we started kindergarten. We draw great significance from the fact that I’m the oldest-the most mature, the most maternal -and Carmen is the baby.

You know how people make a big deal about which twin was born three minutes before the other one? Like it matters? Well, we’re like that. We were all born within seventeen days of each other, first me, a little early, in the end of August, and last Carmen, a little late, in the middle of September. We all have in common that we got bounced on our fetal heads too much. Our mothers were all in the same pregnancy aerobics class, all due in early September. We’ve known each other since before we were born. We, the members of the Sisterhood, were friends before the Traveling Pants. The Traveling Pants are not only the most beautiful pair of jeans that ever existed, they are kind, comforting, and wise. But after the first summer of the Traveling Pants, I do. My sister, Effie, claims I don’t believe in magic, and maybe I didn’t then. They don’t belong completely to the’ world of things you can see and touch. If the same pants fit-and I mean really fit-the four of us, they, aren’t ordinary. First Tibby tried them then me, Lena then Bridget then Carmen.īy the time Carmen pulled them on, we knew something extraordinary was happening. She was going to throw them away, but by chance, Tibby spotted them. Carmen had gotten them from a second-hand place without even bothering to try them on. The four of us were splitting up for the first time in our lives. We discovered their magic last summer, purely by accident. But I know it’s true, because I am one of them-one of the sisters of the Traveling Pants. The girls were all different sizes and shapes, and yet the pants fit each of them. Urn:lcp:secondsummerofsi00annb_2:epub:ce09366a-26e6-4a10-9b41-7a81ec00bcca Foldoutcount 0 Identifier secondsummerofsi00annb_2 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3904kk50 Invoice 11 Isbn 0385908520ĩ780385732437 Lccn 2003535308 Ocr tesseract 5.2.0-1-gc42a Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9559 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Ocr_parameters -l eng Page_number_confidence 92.09 Pages 390 Pdf_module_version 0.0.19 Ppi 500 Republisher_date 20140111020235 Republisher_operator Scandate 20140106034654 Scanner there were four girls who shared a pair of pants. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:32:47 Boxid IA1111414 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II Donor

The second summer of the sisterhood by ann brashares