''The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants'' is a series of five bestselling

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Ann Brashares Ann Brashares (born July 30, 1967) is an American Young adult fiction, young adult novelist. She is best known as the author of ''The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants'' series. Life and career Brashares was born in Alexandria, Virginia, and gr ...

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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants ''The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants'' is a series of five bestselling Young adult literature, young adult novels by Ann Brashares: ''The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (novel), The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2001),'' ''The Second S ...

(2001),'' ''

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(2003),'' '' Girls in Pants'' (2005), '' Forever in Blue'' (2007), and ''

Sisterhood Everlasting ''Sisterhood Everlasting'' is the fifth and last novel in Ann Brashares's "Sisterhood" series. The story concludes the adventures of four girls who share a pair of "magical" pants that fit each one of them perfectly, despite their vastly differe ...

'' (2011). There is a novel called '' 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows'' (2009), which explores similar themes and in which the main characters of the other five novels appear as minor characters. Released by

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, the novels tell the continuing story of four young girls who acquire a pair of

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that fit all four of them perfectly, even though they are all different shapes and sizes. The four main characters are Lena Kaligaris, Tabitha "Tibby" Rollins, Bridget "Bee" Vreeland, and Carmen Lowell. Carmen delivers the prologue and epilogue in first person in the first and fifth books and tends to play the role of keeping the group of friends together throughout the series. The series begins in

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with the four girls beginning the summer prior to their

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year in

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, and then follows them through four consecutive summers, finally ending with the summer break following their freshman year of college. During this time the girls develop in various ways, but their ultimate goal is to learn to become individuals whilst maintaining their childhood friendship that makes them whole. A spin-off novel was released in 2011 and picks up about ten years later, as the girls are about to turn 30. Parts of the series have been translated into many languages, including French, Italian, and Finnish.

Adaptations

Two films have been developed based on the novels: ''

'' (2005) starring

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as Lena,

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as Tibby,

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as Carmen, and

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as Bridget. A second film; ''

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 ''The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2'' is a 2008 American comedy-drama film directed by Sanaa Hamri and written by Elizabeth Chambers. A sequel to the 2005 film '' The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants'', it is based upon the fourth novel i ...

'' was released in 2008. A third film was announced in 2014 that would be based on the book ''

'', and produced by

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was tapped to write a screenplay and

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, director of the first film, would be directing this installment. Alexis Bledel confirmed that the film had recently been pitched. Amber Tamblyn stated in October 2022 that family life was one of the elements in preventing the film getting made. Producer

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expressed in a 2024 interview that she "would love" to make a third film. , it was reported that a musical adaptation based on the 2005 film is in development.

References

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