Summary: A group of four high school best friends go shopping at a thrift store. Carmen buys a pair

Summary: A group of four high school best friends go shopping at a thrift store. Carmen buys a pair of jeans, but the jeans are magical because all of her best friends can also fit the jeans. Lena, Tibby, Carmen, and Bridget all have very different body types, but the jeans appear to fit them all. The girls met before they were born, because their mothers were all in a prenatal aerobics class together. The group have never been separated from each other, until one summer. Carmen travels to South Carolina to spend summer on site car rental denver airport with her father. Lena goes to Greece with her sister, Effie, to spend the summer with her grandparents. Bridget will spend the summer at soccer camp in Baja California, Mexico. Tibby is the only one to stay home in Bethesda, Maryland; she works at Wallman s superstore. Before parting the girls have a friendship ceremony at Gilda s gym where their mother s met in the prenatal class. They promise to stay close and keep up with what each person is doing, while they are away from watch other. They make a list of rules, which include that each person keeps the pants for one week, and then send the pants to the next person so they call the pants Traveling Pants.When the girls send the pants, they are to write about their most exciting experience during on site car rental denver airport summer, while wearing the pants. Carmen finds out that her father is engaged to his fiance Lydia, and meets her two teenage stepchildren. Carmen feels out of place, being Half Puerto Rican, while they are all Caucasian. In Greece, Lena s grandmother tries to set her up with a Greek boy named Kostos. Bridget develops a crush on her soccer coach at camp. One day at work, Tibby sees a young girl collapse in the store, and calls the ambulance. All the girls experience different places and meet new people. After summer, when they return home they gather for a birthday celebration at Gilda s and they write down all their experiences on site car rental denver airport on the pants.
on site car rental denver airport Critical Review: This story is unique because it is a story in which friendship is maintained while friends are separated from each other. Each girl is separated from her confidants, and they must explore their own independence and figure out how to live the world on their own. The girls maintain their friendship while they are away, and each girl learns a valuable lesson about life. The portrayal of characters emotions range as confused, foolish, angry, and generous. These are attributes that women have in real life. Each character makes a mistake, but they quickly learn from their mistakes. This story is relatable for tweens, but for women in general. The friendships that these girls share is the kind that tweens/women long for, dependable, with no rivalries, on site car rental denver airport only support and kindness.
The movie was based on the book by the same title, by Ann Brashares. She grew up in Chevy Case Maryland and went to Barnard on site car rental denver airport College to study philosophy. Brashares is known as a young adult writer best known for Sister Hood of the Traveling Pants and the sequel The Second Summer of the Sisterhood. She lives in New York with her husband Jacob Collins who is an artist and her children on site car rental denver airport Nathaniel, Samuel, and Susannah.
Curriculum: This movie/book would be great to teach high school freshman (female students) about lessons about friendship, sex, death, and acceptance. In ninth grade, students will have to search for groups to identify with so that they feel socially accepted and they fit in. This story can help new freshman have a smooth transition from middle school to high school, by following the girl s examples.