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''The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants'' is a series of books by Ann Brashares. The series chronicles the lives of four girls who have been best friends since they were babies. One summer before they had to split for the season, they find a pair of jeans that magically fit all four of them. So they decide to rotate the pants around through the mail to keep in touch while they're apart. Each book in the series takes place over one summer.
''The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants'' is a series of books by Ann Brashares. The series chronicles the lives of four girls who have been best friends since they were babies. One summer before they had to split for the season, they find a pair of jeans that magically fit all four of them. So they decide to rotate the pants around through the mail to keep in touch while they're apart. Each book in the series takes place over one summer.
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** Lena: Beauty
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** Bridget: Brawn
** Carmen: All of the above (curvy figured fashionista, straight A's, and a bold temperament)
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*** Sanguine: [[GenkiGirl Bridget]].
*** Choleric: [[SpicyLatina Carmen]].
*** Melancholic: [[TheSnarkKnight Tibby]].
*** Phlegmatic: [[ShrinkingViolet Lena]].
*** Sanguine: [[GenkiGirl Bridget]].
*** Choleric: [[SpicyLatina Carmen]].
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* PregnancyScare: To Tibby, in the fourth book, after a condom accident. Though it wouldn't have been quite so bad if she hadn't been juggling multiple {{Idiot Ball}}s during the whole thing. Without waiting for any indication that she was actually pregnant, she freaked out over the exact timing of when her period is due (is it one month after the last one began or after the last one ended?), and broke up with her boyfriend out of fear of the pregnancy.
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* EasilyForgiven: Bridget in ''Sisterhood Everlasting''. [[spoiler: She leaves Eric in the middle of the night and doesn't get in contact with him for weeks, then comes back into his life just long enough to ask for money before leaving for Australia and not getting in contact with him for months. At the end of the book, she calls him to her and tells him about their pregnancy. And...he forgives her. Just like that.]]
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* AffectionateNickname: They all have these for each other: Carma, Lenny, Tibs, and Bee.
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* GrayRainOfDepression: When Carmen's dad moves out.
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* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Broody, [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] Tibby comes off as more tomboyish than the other girls, especially [[TheFashionista]] fashionable [[TheFashionista fashionable]] [[SpicyLatina Carmen]], but the trope isn't really played straight. Sporty, flirtatious Bridget is also the tomboy to [[ShrinkingViolet shy]], artistic Lena.
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''[[Literature/TheSisterhoodOfTheTravelingPants The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants]]'' is a series of books by Ann Brashares. The series chronicles the lives of four girls who have been best friends since they were babies. One summer before they had to split for the summer, season, they find a pair of jeans that magically fit all four of them. So they decide to rotate the pants around through the mail to keep in touch while they're apart. Each book in the series takes place over one summer.
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* HeyItsThatGirl: [[GossipGirl Serena van der Woodsen]], [[JoanOfArcadia Joan Ghirardi]], [[GilmoreGirls Rory Gilmore]], [[UglyBetty Betty]], and [[PrettyLittleLiars Aria Montgomery]].
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** Goes for Bee and her twin brother Perry, too. Bee is outgoing, passionate, impulsive and a jock, while Perry is very quiet, withdrawn, and lives at his computer.
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* BookEnds: Carmen narrates the prologue of the first book and the epilogue of ''Sisterhood Everlasting''.
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''[[Literature/TheSisterhoodOfTheTravelingPants The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants]]'' is a series of books by Ann Brashares. The series chronicles the lives of four girls who have been best friends since they were babies. One summer before they had to split for the summer, they find a pair of jeans that magically fit all four of them. So they decide to rotate the pants around through the mail to keep in touch while they're apart. Each book in the series takes place over one summer.
In 2005 a movie was made based on the first book. It starred AmberTamblyn, AmericaFerrera, BlakeLively, and AlexisBledel. The original series consisted of four books, but a sequel has been released since then, as well as a spin-off taking place in the same universe and focusing on new characters.
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!!This book series and film adaptation provide examples of:
* AesopAmnesia: Very weirdly averted. At first, Carmen getting mad at her mother for [[spoiler: getting pregnant]] might seem like she's forgetting her experiences in the first and second book, but her inner narrative states that she can figure out what happens when she gets angry and the fallout, but she still does it.
** [[spoiler:Played straight for almost everyone]] in Sisterhood Everlasting. [[spoiler:Carmen lets someone she has no real connection with absorb her life, Lena watches life drift by by waiting for Kostos again, and the girls make the same mistake their mothers did by letting each other slip away.]]
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Lena gives two of these to Kostos.
* AttractivenessIsolation: Lena.
* TheBabyTrap: In the second book, [[spoiler:a girl that Kostos sleeps with after Lena breaks up with him fakes a pregnancy in order to guilt Kostos into marriage]].
* [[BloodBrothers Blood Sisters]]: The girls practically consider themselves family being born around the same time and basically spending their entire lives together. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It's in the title, man!]]
* CallingTheOldManOut: Carmen does this to her father in the first book.
* CharacterDevelopment: A lot over the books, Bridget possibly receiving the most.
* ChickLit
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Bridget and Billy Kline in the second book.
* DeadGuyJunior: In the sequel, there's [[spoiler:Tibby's daughter, Bailey.]]
* DeadLittleSister: [[spoiler:Bailey]] acts as one to [[spoiler:Tibby]] after the first book even though they were not related.
* DeadpanSnarker: Tibby.
* DidTheyOrDidntThey: It's purposely left ambiguous if [[spoiler:Bridget and Eric]] did in the first book, though in the fourth book [[spoiler:Bridget finally says it actually happened]].
* DisappearedDad: Carmen's father was one before the start of the series.
* DisposableFiance: Kostos has one in the original series and Carmen has one in the sequel. Both [[spoiler:Evil All Along]].
* DrivenToSuicide:
** Implied with Bridget's mother.
** [[spoiler:Subverted with Tibby]] in Sisterhood Everlasting.
* {{Epigraph}}: Each chapter begins with one.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Wild and unstoppable Bridget. Her hair is her most striking feature, so when [[spoiler:she dyes it]] in the second book, it's clear [[{{HeroicBSOD}} something's up]].
* FalseFriend: Julia to Carmen in the fourth book.
* FamilyBusiness: Lena's grandparents run a Greek restaurant together.
* FourGirlEnsemble: Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget. 'Nuff said.
** FourTemperamentEnsemble:
*** Sanguine: [[GenkiGirl Bridget]].
*** Choleric: [[SpicyLatina Carmen]].
*** Melancholic: [[ShrinkingViolet Lena]].
*** Phlegmatic: [[TheSnarkKnight Tibby]].
* FriendshipMoment: Especially the endings of the books are full of them.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: [[spoiler:Played straight with Bridget]] in the sequel.
* HeIsAllGrownUp: Brian by the third book.
* HeroicBSOD: The ''entire year'' between the first and second book serves as one for Bridget.
* HeyItsThatGirl: [[GossipGirl Serena van der Woodsen]], [[JoanOfArcadia Joan Ghirardi]], [[GilmoreGirls Rory Gilmore]], [[UglyBetty Betty]], and [[PrettyLittleLiars Aria Montgomery]].
* HippieParents: How Tibby's parents were before they settled down and had more kids.
* IvyLeagueForEveryone: Subverted in the third and fourth books. Bridget went to Brown, but the rest of the girls went to some prestigious schools outside of the ivy league.
* {{Kuudere}}: Tibby (following the [[DeadpanSnarker cynic route]]) and Lena (following the [[DefrostingIceQueen stoic and distant variety]]), both balancing {{Tsundere}} Carmen and GenkiGirl Bridget.
* LittlestCancerPatient: [[spoiler:Bailey]] in the first book.
* LamazeClass: In the third book, Carmen goes with her mom to Lamaze class, but it's [[spoiler:Tibby]] who's there when she gives birth.
* MissingMom: Bridget's mom died sometime before the series begins. It's implied to have been suicide.
* MoodSwinger: Bridget, who is said to be a lot like her mom in this regard. A popular AlternateCharacterInterpretation is that she has bipolar disorder.
* NakedFirstImpression: Lena and Kostos.
* RaisedByGrandparents: Kostos.
* SexChangesEverything:
** Tibby and Brian in the fourth book.
** Bridget with Eric in the first.
* SiblingYinYang: Lena is quiet and withdrawn, while her sister Effie is confident and outgoing.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Lena, though in a more realistic case than usual. Her striking good looks contrast with her antisocial personality, and most people are too intimidated to even approach her.
* SpicyLatina: Carmen's hurt feelings and temper lead her to throw a rock through her father's dining room window and then run away.
* {{Tsundere}}: Carmen, although she rarely is ''Tsun'' to any of her romantic interests, instead towards her family and occasionally her friends.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Bailey.
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''[[Literature/TheSisterhoodOfTheTravelingPants The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants]]'' is a series of books by Ann Brashares. The series chronicles the lives of four girls who have been best friends since they were babies. One summer before they had to split for the summer, they find a pair of jeans that magically fit all four of them. So they decide to rotate the pants around through the mail to keep in touch while they're apart. Each book in the series takes place over one summer.
In 2005 a movie was made based on the first book. It starred AmberTamblyn, AmericaFerrera, BlakeLively, and AlexisBledel. The original series consisted of four books, but a sequel has been released since then, as well as a spin-off taking place in the same universe and focusing on new characters.
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!!This book series and film adaptation provide examples of:
* AesopAmnesia: Very weirdly averted. At first, Carmen getting mad at her mother for [[spoiler: getting pregnant]] might seem like she's forgetting her experiences in the first and second book, but her inner narrative states that she can figure out what happens when she gets angry and the fallout, but she still does it.
** [[spoiler:Played straight for almost everyone]] in Sisterhood Everlasting. [[spoiler:Carmen lets someone she has no real connection with absorb her life, Lena watches life drift by by waiting for Kostos again, and the girls make the same mistake their mothers did by letting each other slip away.]]
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Lena gives two of these to Kostos.
* AttractivenessIsolation: Lena.
* TheBabyTrap: In the second book, [[spoiler:a girl that Kostos sleeps with after Lena breaks up with him fakes a pregnancy in order to guilt Kostos into marriage]].
* [[BloodBrothers Blood Sisters]]: The girls practically consider themselves family being born around the same time and basically spending their entire lives together. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It's in the title, man!]]
* CallingTheOldManOut: Carmen does this to her father in the first book.
* CharacterDevelopment: A lot over the books, Bridget possibly receiving the most.
* ChickLit
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Bridget and Billy Kline in the second book.
* DeadGuyJunior: In the sequel, there's [[spoiler:Tibby's daughter, Bailey.]]
* DeadLittleSister: [[spoiler:Bailey]] acts as one to [[spoiler:Tibby]] after the first book even though they were not related.
* DeadpanSnarker: Tibby.
* DidTheyOrDidntThey: It's purposely left ambiguous if [[spoiler:Bridget and Eric]] did in the first book, though in the fourth book [[spoiler:Bridget finally says it actually happened]].
* DisappearedDad: Carmen's father was one before the start of the series.
* DisposableFiance: Kostos has one in the original series and Carmen has one in the sequel. Both [[spoiler:Evil All Along]].
* DrivenToSuicide:
** Implied with Bridget's mother.
** [[spoiler:Subverted with Tibby]] in Sisterhood Everlasting.
* {{Epigraph}}: Each chapter begins with one.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Wild and unstoppable Bridget. Her hair is her most striking feature, so when [[spoiler:she dyes it]] in the second book, it's clear [[{{HeroicBSOD}} something's up]].
* FalseFriend: Julia to Carmen in the fourth book.
* FamilyBusiness: Lena's grandparents run a Greek restaurant together.
* FourGirlEnsemble: Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget. 'Nuff said.
** FourTemperamentEnsemble:
*** Sanguine: [[GenkiGirl Bridget]].
*** Choleric: [[SpicyLatina Carmen]].
*** Melancholic: [[ShrinkingViolet Lena]].
*** Phlegmatic: [[TheSnarkKnight Tibby]].
* FriendshipMoment: Especially the endings of the books are full of them.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: [[spoiler:Played straight with Bridget]] in the sequel.
* HeIsAllGrownUp: Brian by the third book.
* HeroicBSOD: The ''entire year'' between the first and second book serves as one for Bridget.
* HeyItsThatGirl: [[GossipGirl Serena van der Woodsen]], [[JoanOfArcadia Joan Ghirardi]], [[GilmoreGirls Rory Gilmore]], [[UglyBetty Betty]], and [[PrettyLittleLiars Aria Montgomery]].
* HippieParents: How Tibby's parents were before they settled down and had more kids.
* IvyLeagueForEveryone: Subverted in the third and fourth books. Bridget went to Brown, but the rest of the girls went to some prestigious schools outside of the ivy league.
* {{Kuudere}}: Tibby (following the [[DeadpanSnarker cynic route]]) and Lena (following the [[DefrostingIceQueen stoic and distant variety]]), both balancing {{Tsundere}} Carmen and GenkiGirl Bridget.
* LittlestCancerPatient: [[spoiler:Bailey]] in the first book.
* LamazeClass: In the third book, Carmen goes with her mom to Lamaze class, but it's [[spoiler:Tibby]] who's there when she gives birth.
* MissingMom: Bridget's mom died sometime before the series begins. It's implied to have been suicide.
* MoodSwinger: Bridget, who is said to be a lot like her mom in this regard. A popular AlternateCharacterInterpretation is that she has bipolar disorder.
* NakedFirstImpression: Lena and Kostos.
* RaisedByGrandparents: Kostos.
* SexChangesEverything:
** Tibby and Brian in the fourth book.
** Bridget with Eric in the first.
* SiblingYinYang: Lena is quiet and withdrawn, while her sister Effie is confident and outgoing.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Lena, though in a more realistic case than usual. Her striking good looks contrast with her antisocial personality, and most people are too intimidated to even approach her.
* SpicyLatina: Carmen's hurt feelings and temper lead her to throw a rock through her father's dining room window and then run away.
* {{Tsundere}}: Carmen, although she rarely is ''Tsun'' to any of her romantic interests, instead towards her family and occasionally her friends.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Bailey.
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