The Second Summer of the Sisterhood By Ann Brashares

Following on from The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants the girls are having their second summer apart and are getting out the pants for a new journey. Bridget goes to find her grandmother in Alabama but she doesn’t want to be recognised by her so she disguises herself by dying her hair and gets a job with her grandmother cleaning out her attic.  Bridget stopped playing soccer and she is no longer fit. She meets Billie whom she used to play soccer with when she was younger. She and her grandmother get closer and she starts getting fitter again but she still wonders if the pants fit. Carmen’s mother is in love and is crazy to impress a man but when Carmen’s life is upset by trying to have her mother back to normal she ruins her own date and when her mother borrows the pants Carmen is sure she has gone too far. Tibby goes to summer college attending a film course, replacing her old friends with new friends but when she realises what she has being doing she has a change of heart and creates a new film that is close to her heart. Lena struggles trying to let go of Kostos her ex boyfriend and can’t stop thinking about him but he has moved on but she feels she can love no other and holding onto hope that he will come back to her. As Kostos comes, she changes and the old Lena is released. The sisterhood hold on to each other and have a journey of their own for their second summer apart. This is a great book that I recommend, there is romance and adventure and will thrill many readers and is suited for a large age range.