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Plot Summary of Girls in Pants
"This book is a follow-up to the very popular Ann Brashares novels "Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants" and "The Second Summer of the Sisterhood." The book follows the four inseparable friends Tibby, Carmen, Lena, and Bridget during the summer before they head to college. The narrative shifts each chapter, following a different one of the girls, but only the prologue and epilogue are in first person.

Bridget is at soccer camp in Pennsylvania, and reunites with the young man whom she slept with two summers ago. Bridget is ashamed of how forward she was before, but it soon becomes clear that the two still have feelings for each other. Carmen is working as a “babysitter” to Lena's Greek grandmother. She is also dealing the fact that her mother is just remarried and pregnant, and that a handsome hospital volunteer thinks she is fabulous. Lena is working hard to earn an art scholarship after her father refuses to support her at Rhode Island School of Design, and is also coping with last year's heartbreak. Tibby is learning to take risks and slowly accepting the fact that she is in love with her best friend.
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Katy Pape, Resident Scholar

Review Analysis of Girls in Pants
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Plot
Tone of book? - upbeat
Time/era of story - present (2000-2010)
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Ethnic/regional/gender life Yes
GROUP of women story? Yes

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - student
Ethnicity/Nationality - Hispanic/Latinic
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 2 (a little)
United States Yes

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Unusual Style: - No single main character?
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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Ann Brashares Resident Scholar Profiles

TOP SCHOLAR:
  
Katie  

SCHOLARS:
Katy Pape  Hannah Kampf  Lauren  Linda Napikoski  Eucalia  Jennifer Selk  Christine  Jessica  


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