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April 25, 2009
3 WILLOWS by Ann Brashares
It is here; the follow up book to the incredibly fabulous SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS series. The book is 3 WILLOWS: THE SISTERHOOD GROWS.
We met Bree, Lena, Tibby and Carman, when they were in high school, while the three willows are Polly, Jo and Ama, the summer before they enter high school. There are references to the Traveling Pants, because these young teens live in the same community. The girls have grown up under the spell of the pants and idolized the idea of the pants.
Ama is an overachiever who was born in Ghana, but has been in USA since she was six. Her summer is spent at a Wilderness Camp with hiking and camping, but she had hoped for an air-conditioned library and academic pursuits.
Jo has discovered her parents are separating. She is off with her mother to the beach house for the summer where a summer job as a bus girl introduces her to her first fling with an older boy and the ways of high school upper classmen.
Lastly there is Polly. She doesn't know her father and her mother, an artist, hasn't paid attention to her in a long time, so she decides to change herself, both inside and outside. She goes on a diet, signs up for modeling camp, and hopes for a more glamorous life.
Each girl goes it alone. But like the first SISTERHOOD friendship is most important.
I RECOMMEND THIS TITLE FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLS IN GRADES 6 TO 8 BUT OLDER FANS OF THE FIRST SERIES MAY BE DISAPPOINTED.
Mrs. Jackson
Head of Young Adult Services
Posted by fjacksonem at April 25, 2009 9:17 AM