The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

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name = The Second Summer of the Sisterhood


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author = Ann Brashares
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country = United States
language = English
series = The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
genre = Young adult novel
publisher = Delacorte Press
release_date = April 2003
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media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 400 pp (first edition, hardback)
isbn = ISBN 978-0385729345 (first edition, hardback)
preceded_by = The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
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"The Second Summer of the Sisterhood" is a novel written in 2003 by acclaimed author Ann Brashares. The story continues the adventures of four best friends who own a magical pair of jeans that fit all of them, even though they are different sizes. During the summer, the girls share the pants. "The Second Summer of the Sisterhood" is the second in a series of four books: "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants", ', and '.

Plot summary

Tibby, Lena, Carmen and Bridget are back for another summer with the magical pants from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. The jeans from the resale shop that look great on all four best friends have been waiting for another summer. New decorations and words will be added to the remains of last year's events, as documented on the magical denim.The girls have all been best friends for many years, though they love each other as sisters. Over the past few years, and continuing through the rest of the series, the girls have found themselves changing as various issues confront them. Bridget has not recovered from her relationship with Eric Richman last summer and decides to spend this summer in Alabama with her long-estranged maternal grandmother. She wants to rediscover herself and her love of soccer. Carmen is dismayed to find that her mother is dating again, just as she herself is going on her very first date. Tibby is spending the summer at film camp, where she wants to fit in and needs the Pants to help her determine who is sincere and who is phony. Lena is shocked when Kostos, her Greek boyfriend from last summer, comes to America and they fall in love all over again. She also learns that her mother experienced long-distance heartbreak when she was Lena's age, though she doesn't want to talk about it. Each girl needs the Pants and each other to continue growing their unique identities.

Characters

The Sisterhood

*Lena Kaligaris, sometimes called Lenny, is a beautiful, quiet, and shy artist of Greek heritage. She has a sister, Effie, who is fifteen months younger. Lena spent last summer with their paternal grandparents in Santorini, Greece, where Lena met and fell in love with Kostos. They sent letters back and forth until January, when Lena ended their correspondence because she couldn't stand missing him all year. She is shocked, then elated, when Kostos visits America during this summer. They reunite and profess their love for each other, and spend many happy hours kissing. Then, suddenly, something comes up and Kostos has to leave, leaving her behind to wonder what was wrong. Lena and her family soon travel to Greece when they learn that her Bapi has had a stroke; when they arrive there, they learn that he has died. Lena is devastated, and becomes even more so when she finds out that Kostos is now married. He tells her that, after she broke up with him, he was depressed and slept with a woman, who is now pregnant. Kostos tells her that he doesn't love his wife, but must be a "gentleman" and marry her. He makes it clear, though, that he loves Lena and always will.
* Tibby Rollins is the rebellious daughter of former radicals. Her interest in filmmaking leads her to spend the summer taking a course at Williamston College. In her efforts to impress two jaded classmates, she makes a hurtful movie about her mother and ignores her close friend Brian McBrian, who visits her at college to be with her. But after seeing how upset her mother is about her movie, Tibby begins to reevaluate her actions, realizing that her friend Bailey, who died last summer of leukemia, would disapprove of her. She eventually shuns her new friends in favor of Brian and makes a heartfelt movie about Bailey instead.
* Bridget "Bee" Vreeland used to be a bold, energetic soccer star who was described as "single-minded to the point of recklessness." But after rushing into a relationship with her coach, Eric, last summer, Bridget has withdrawn into herself, becoming quiet and sedentary, quitting soccer. She discovers letters written to her and her brother by her maternal grandmother, Greta Randolph, following her mother's suicide, and journeys to Alabama to visit Greta. She hides her identity for most of the summer, pretending to be "Gilda," a girl who offers to help Greta around the house in order to earn money for college. She learns a great deal about her grandparents and her mother, and in doing so, she starts to rediscover the old Bridget, including her love of soccer. At the summer's end, she reveals her true identity to her grandmother, who confesses that she knew all along, and they form a strong bond.
* Carmen Lucille Lowell is the sensitive and caring half-Puerto Rican "with the bad temper." Her parents are divorced, and she lives with her mother, Christina. This summer, she is angry and frightened when her mother's relationship with David, a coworker, seems to be getting serious; Carmen worries that her mother is moving ahead with her life and leaving her behind. Her attempts to foster her own romance with Porter, a classmate, are hindered by her distraction due to her mother's relationship. She criticizes her mother's actions, leading to Christina and David's break-up, and her mother's resulting depression causes her to realize that her mother deserves happiness, even if Carmen feels threatened by it. She helps to reunite David and Christina.

From Santorini, Greece

*Valia and Bapi Kaligaris are Lena and Effie's grandparents. Valia is talkative and spirited, like Effie, while Bapi is quiet and introspective like Lena. Bapi dies of a stroke at the end of the summer.
*Kostos Dounas lives with his paternal grandparents in Santorini. He and Lena fell in love at the end of last summer, but she broke off their correspondence because she wanted to feel like her life "belonged to just her again," not wanting to live her life missing Kostos and yearning to spend time with him. They reunite briefly this summer, which ultimately ends in more heartbreak because she finds out that when she broke up with him he had sex with another girl, got her pregnant, and now feels that he must marry her like a true gentleman.

In Bethesda, Maryland

*Brian McBrian is a video game aficionado who spent hours every day playing "Dragon Master" at 7-Eleven, until he met Tibby last summer (through Bailey) and began spending most of his time with her. He has an unhappy home life with his mother and abusive stepfather, whom his mother married after his father died. He goes to visit Tibby at her summer college and is hurt when she dumps him for her new friends, although he ultimately forgives her. Tibby's friends believe that he has romantic feelings for her, although he does not reveal them in the 2nd book.

*Porter is Carmen's classmate with whom she goes on a few dates over the summer. Although he genuinely likes her, Carmen is too distracted by her mother's romance and her aspirations for an accessory-like "Boyfriend" to start much of a relationship with him.

At Williamston College

*Alex is a fellow summer film student. Tibby finds him intriguing, talented, and attractive, and she tries to impress him. She even shuns Brian when it becomes clear that Alex dislikes him. She eventually realizes, though, that Alex is a phony and ends their friendship.
*Maura is Alex's friend and a film student from New York City. She wears pink glasses. Tibby describes her as a "yeah-girl," who goes along with Alex.
*Vanessa is the RA of the dorm where Tibby and Maura live for the summer. Maura makes fun of the number of stuffed animals in her room, but when Vanessa reveals that she makes and sews them herself, Tibby begins to consider Vanessa, not Maura, the artist.

Family members of the Sisterhood

*Georgos "George" Kaligaris is Lena's strict Greek father. Although his parents owned a restaurant in Greece, he is a lawyer. He has spent his adult life trying to repress his Greek heritage, until his father dies at the end of the summer.
*Ariadne "Ari" Kaligaris is Lena's mother, an ambitious Greek woman who put herself through school to become a social worker. She had a lengthy, long-distance romance with a man called Eugene when she was younger. Shortly after they broke up, she met and married Lena's father.
*Effie Kaligaris is Lena's extroverted sister, fifteen months younger. Effie gives Lena courage and comfort at times when the Sisterhood isn't there. Effie loves having boys be around her.
*Franz Vreeland is Bridget's father, a former history professor and a teacher at a private high school. When Bridget was little, his favorite part of the day was when she would put his socks on for him because he doesn't have good things in his life since his wife died. He hasn't been very close to Bridget in her teenage years.
*Marlene "Marly" Randolph Vreeland is Bridget's late mother, who died six and a half years ago due to effects of bipolar disorder.
*Perry Vreeland is Bridget's twin brother who shared a childhood with the Sisterhood but grew up to be a reclusive teenager. He was named for Marly's brother, Pervis Randolph.
*Christina Lowell is Carmen's 38-year-old mother. She is Puerto Rican and works as a secretary for a law firm. She has never seriously dated since her divorce almost ten years ago, until this summer.
*Mr. Rollins is Tibby's father. He is a lawyer who used to work as a public defender. He is not a major character. Although Tibby told Bailey in the first book that her parents were nineteen when she was born, in this book she says that his 40th birthday has passed.
*Alice Tomko-Rollins is Tibby's 35-year-old mother, who was a hippie and a sculptor while Tibby was young. She is embarrassed by Tibby when she makes an embarrassing movie about her mother that is shown at open house at Williamston College not expecting her mom to be there.
*Nicky and Katherine Rollins are Tibby's younger siblings.

In South Carolina

*Albert 'Al' Lowell is Carmen's father. He married Lydia Rodman last summer.
*Lydia Rodman-Lowell is Al's second wife and the mother of Carmen's stepsiblings, Paul and Krista.
*Paul Rodman is two years older than Carmen and has an alcoholic father. He attends the University of Pennsylvania, his father's alma mater. He is serious and quiet, although he does pledge a fraternity. At the end of the summer, he meets Lena at a restaurant, and seems fascinated by her. They seem to have their own quiet chemistry.
*Krista Rodman is Carmen's age. She and Carmen did not get along when they met last summer, but this summer Krista runs away to Bethesda in an effort to convince her mother that she wants to have her own identity.

In Alabama

*Greta Randolph is Bridget's grandmother who, like Bridget's mother, suffers from diabetes. Greta was cut off from Bridget because of her bad relationship with Bridget's father. Over the summer, Bridget takes the name Gilda Tomko (combining the names of the gym where the Septembers first met and Tibby's mother's maiden name) to meet and work for Greta and obtain information about her mother. Greta, who was never fooled by the alias, helps Bridget discover her mother's past.
*Billy Kline is Bridget's childhood friend, fellow soccer player, and summer romance. He used to be her best friend when she visited Alabama during summers when Marly was still alive.

External links

* [http://www.randomhouse.com/teens/sisterhoodcentral/ Sisterhood Central] from Random House


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