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The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, by Ann Brashares, is a sequel to the author's previous novel The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. The book follows the lives of four teenage girls — Lena Kaligaris, Bridget Vreeland, Tibby Tomko-Rollins, and Carmen Lowell during their 17th summer. The girls have been close friends all their lives and a year earlier, they were separated for the first time when each of them spent the summer in a different location. Just before they separated, Carmen bought a pair of jeans that miraculously fit all four of them perfectly even though they are of very different sizes. Deciding that the pants were somehow magical, the girls shipped them to their various locations during the summer so each could share their special powers.

This sequel begins with a prologue narrated by Lena in which she explains...