How can four completely different girls fit in to the same pair of pants? In The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by, Ann Brashares published in 2001; it is possible. Four very different best friends have wonderful and not so wonderful experiences in the first summer they have ever spent apart since they were born.
Carmen, Tibby, Bridget, and Lena have been friends all their lives, even before they were born their mother's were friends and they were together through out their whole pregnancy. They were each born within nine days of each other, and ever since, they have been inseparable. All of this suddenly changes once they find out that they would not be spending their summer together for the very first time. Summer vacation has been when they would spend the most time together hanging out and doing what average teenage girls usually do, summer was when all of their birthdays would tie together. However, this summer was going to be different, this summer none of them would even be in the same state. Carmen was visiting her dad in South Carolina, Tibby was staying in Maryland and working at a local grocery store, Bridget was going to soccer camp in Baja, Mexico, and Lena was going to Greece to visit her grandparents. When Carmen was packing for her trip Tibby noticed a pair of pants in the back of Carmen's closet that she has never seen Carmen wear before (Carmen threw them there after she bought them from a thrift shop a little while ago and forgot about them soon after). Tibby wanted them so she tried them on and they looked great, Lena tried them on and they fit her too, then Bridget tried them on and they looked great on her too, then Carmen tried them on and they looked awesome. These pants made each of them look different, they made them look a way they never saw themselves before. How can four girls with completely different body shapes fit into the same pair of pants? They decided that these magic' pants were special and that they should travel between each one of them over the summer as a way for them to be together even though they are apart.
