I just started this book yesterday, and I'm already halfway through it! I never really thought of reading it because I saw the movie four times at camp. So I was really surprised to realize, that the book was: a.) way better than the movie, and b.) something that I should have read a while ago. It is about four best friends that are about to go their separate ways for the first time during summer. Beatrice is going to soccer camp in Baja, California, Carmen is going to South Carolina to visit her dad, Lena is going to Greece to visit her grandparents and Tibby is staying home with a job at the local Wallmans. While at soccer camp Beatrice develops a crush on the completely off-limits coach, Eric. Carmen's dad breaks the news that he is getting remarried in three months, to a woman she has never met. Lena's grandma sets her up with a family friends son, who she doesn't want to like. Tibby meets a girl with leukemia while at work and they set out to make a documentary. Before everyone departed they went shopping at the little thrift store on the corner. Libby found a pair of jeans that she tried on and they fit. Then Lena decided she would try, and they fit her too. Beatrice pulled them on and they looked great. Finally Carmen tried them and they surprisingly fit her. And thus the sisterhod of the traveling pants was born. I think a lot of people would enjoy this book. I can't wait to find out what happens in the end!
-Lauren
