Growing up with these women has always made me happy. I loved the movies too. ( )

Romance

FROM AMAZON: It’s the summer before the sisterhood departs for college . . . their last real summer together before they head off to start their grown-up lives. It’s the time when Lena, Tibby, Bridget, and Carmen need their Pants the most.

Pants = love. Love your pals. Love yourself.

“A fun and poignant coming-of-age story." —Entertainment Weekly

“Readers of the other books won’t be disappointed.” —Booklist, Starred

“A treat for anyone.” —Los Angeles Times

“These are friends worth having.” —Chicago Tribune ( )

At least the girls had stories that varied from the first two books. Even if a couple were obviously self-inflicted teen angst. But it was a good story nonetheless. ( )

This is a nice, light summer read. I enjoyed reading it very much. ( )

I did not like this book nearly as much as the previous two. Everything felt a little flat to me and it was seriously unrealistic. I did not feel like the characters really grew at all in this book and it feels like a filler. I'm hoping that means the fourth book is better. ( )

In this book, the members of the sisterhood of the traveling pants have to take their final steps to resolve the issues they had before. Tibby has to learn to take her connections with others to the next level as her friendship with Brian turns into love. Carmen is still dealing with family jealousy/sharing issues. With a new baby on the way, she has to learn to let her family grow and change. Lena has to learn to face her father so that she can live her dreams- she is becoming the artist she truly is. Bridget is as soccer camp again- this time coaching with Eric, who opened the doors to her breakdown in the first book. Now as a person who understands herself she is able to be open to him in a new way. ( )

A fun read for a young adult girl. I've been reading these all in a row, which I think is the way to read them. The girls are getting ready to head to college and this is their last summer before they head to adulthood. ( )

The sisterhood of the Traveling Pants graduates from high school and spends their last summer before college learning about life and themselves.

This book is from Tibby's point of view.

So I am reading the third book, and again Carmen is killing me, she just spoiled everything. I just finished and I am really happy for Carmen's choice on Win and Williams, and for Tibby and Brain, and Bee and Erik and Lena for once doing what she is good at. But I don't want the series to end. ( )

The sisterhood of the Traveling Pants graduates from high school and spends their last summer before college learning about life and themselves.

This book is from Tibby's point of view.

So I am reading the third book, and again Carmen is killing me, she just spoiled everything. I just finished and I am really happy for Carmen's choice on Win and Williams, and for Tibby and Brain, and Bee and Erik and Lena for once doing what she is good at. But I don't want the series to end. ( )

Full review on my blog: http://ahjustscrewit.blogspot.com/2015/04/book-talk-girls-in-pants-third-summer.... ( )

I would definitely recommend this book to a friend, but you must read the first two before this one. It's a great book for a girl or a group of friends to read. It really explains well a girl's feelings and emotions. 4Q4P The cover art is okay and I'd recommend this to high school students. I chose to read this book because I read the first book and loved it. I also watched both movies. I wish I read the second one before this one though, but I found this one in a book store so I just decided to buy it. AutumnM

This book is definitely one of the best chic flick books I have ever read and is honestly the book that got me addicted to the genre. This is full of young love and plot twists and is a book that I couldn't put down and read it in a day. I would definitely recommend this to anyone looking for a good beach-side read or anyone looking for a good book in general.

This series by Ann Brashares starts out very strong and falls off a cliff in the last book. The first two are well-realized, strongly plotted explorations of adolescence from various viewpoints. The last is inexplicable and maddening. Brashares seemed, like Alcott, tempted to have an earthquake swallow the girls so she might be finished with them and move on. I'll be interested to read her next book, now that she's put away the pants. ( )

In my opinion, while “Girls in Pants” is the weakest out of the four, I don’t think it’s a bad book. It feels more like a filler to set up for the grand finale. There’s a strong sense of how hard long-term separation is going to be on the girls, and a lot of the story revolves around home and family. I wasn’t fond of having Carmen tout Valia around for a whole summer, on top of her dealing with her mother’s pregnancy, but it strengthened her character beyond “teenager with family issues.” The biggest misstep, though, was re-establishing Bridget’s relationship with Eric. Her breakdown and fallout at the end of the first book really hooked me, so having everything be okay now that Bridget’s of legal age bugged me. (If they had come to terms with what happened and left it at that, I would be fine with him showing up again.) Again, not a horrible book, but feels more like a place-holder. ( )

The 3rd summer of the sisterhood. The girls have graduated from highschool. They now have a limited amount of time at home before school. Another summer of the pants working their magic and the girls learning life lessons. ( )

Girls in Pants by Ann Brashares is the third book of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.The girls have graduated from high school and getting ready for college. During their last summer together Lena wants to go to art college. Her dad does not approve and she has to fight for what she wants. Tibby spends her time worrying about her little sister who fell out of a window while trying to climb to an apple tree. Carmen spends her time “babysitting” Lena’s grandmother and her pregnant mother. Finally Bridget goes to soccer camp and meets up with her old crush.
This book was my favorite out of the other two books. Girls in Pants was so good that I could barely put it down. The one thing I don’t like is that Ann Brashares spent too much time explaining some of the girls story and not enough on the others. I would recommend this book to any 7th or 8th grade girls. His book was a very good book and very captivating. ( )

As an avid fan of the Traveling Pants books, I was a bit disappointed with the third novel of the series. As others have said, the Pants have a very minor role in this book and the focus is purely on the girls. On top of that, only one of them is away during this summer so many of the fun letters and exchanges have been removed. Those letters were part of what gave the book some flair.

However, the book isn't a bad one. While it is my least favorite in the series so far, it is still leaps and bounds better than many other YA fiction. I find that in each book I gravitate more towards one girl's journey than the others. In the first book it was Tibby. In the second book it was Bridget. In this book I found Lena's story to be the one that was the most interesting and well thought out, with Bridget's being a close second. It was nice to see Lena transform into a stronger, more self-sufficient version of herself. It was refreshing to watch her fight for her dream of going to art school and finally letting go of Kostos. The other three story lines just didn't seem to compare as far as depth and self-discovery were concerned.

In the end, this book is pretty average. I think that Traveling Pants fans will still love it for bringing us another summer in the lives of four of our favorite girls, but I wouldn't recommend the uninitiated to start with this one. Three and a half stars. ( )

Girls In Pants is the third book of The Traveling Pants series. I really adore these books. This one seemed less about the pants (plays a much smaller row than the previous books) and more about the friends growing up. Looking forward to reading Forever In Blue, and the newest, due to be released this month, Sisterhood Everlasting. ( )

I said I'd read the whole series, and I am. In this one, the girls are out of high school and facing their last summer before heading off to college. Again, real life issues are handled in varying ways. The book is really fine, and I probably should give it more stars, but I didn't. I really like these characters, and I'm starting to understand them a bit better. The only problem is that they are all too privileged and too perfect at times. I want to see more flaws! ( )

it was better than the second book but there is just something about this series that i'm bored with. ( )

The third book in the series.

Not as good as the first novel. ( )

Innuendo: Premarital situations.

Violence: None

Swearing: I think there were a few in the book.

Drinking, Drugs, Smoking: Don't remember.

Age Appropriate: I read this when I was 16 and I wished I hadn't. I read the whole series waiting for it to redeem itself and it never did. There are premarital situations in each book.

as captivating as the others!! ( )