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"In The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, Bridget, Carmen, Tibby, and Lena embark on their second summer as The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Bridget heads off impulsivly to Alambama to face her problems, Tibby enrolls in a college flm-making program, Carmen stays at home and worries about her mother, who she thinks is going crazy over her boyfriend, and Lena looks death, betrayal,and love in the face in this page-turning novel."
Jessica, Resident Scholar
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"Carmen, Lena, Tibby, and Bridget are four close friends who share a pair of jeans in order to feel connectected to each other during the summer. There is a conflict with each of the four girls. Carmen is having troubles with her dad's new family, and with her mom's new boyfriend. Carmen's stepsister, Krista, ran away from home and came to Carmen for help.
Carmen's mom is dating this guy named David, and Carmen really hates him. She manages to break the two up, but realizes her big mistake. Lena just broke up with her boyfreind from Greece, and misses him dreadfully. Somehow, Kostos, her boyfriend, meets Lena back in the U.S, and they "do it" in the park. But then, Kostos mysteriously goes back to Greece, and its up to Lena to track him down.
Tibby heads off to Virginia for a film program. There, she has to make a biography film, so she makes a comic one of her mom. Unfortunatly, she makes her mom feel very sad, so Tibby has to make it up to her mom. Bridget flies to Alabama to see her grandmother, but in a disguise in order to find out about her dead mother. While there, she meets some of her old Alabama friends, boys she used to play with on a soccer team. "
Lauren, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- humorous
Time/era of story
- present (2000-2010)
Kids growing up/acting up?
Yes
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Age 11-14
Parents/lack of parents problem?
- rebelling against parent's expectations
Loving/sexing?
- guy chasing
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- student
- scholar
Age:
- a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
- Hispanic/Latinic
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- student
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- an average amount
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 7 (a good amount)
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
- Northeast
- Midwest
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Greece
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
- licking
- descript. of female anat. (the big B's)
- descript. of female anat. (the big V)
Lot of foul language?
Yes
Unusual Style:
- No single main character?
- written like a journal/diary/letters
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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