# The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

**Author:** Ann Brashares
**Grade range:** Grades 7–10
**Age range:** 12–15
**First published:** 2001
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780553494792`
**ISBN-10:** `0553494791`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-sisterhood-of-the-traveling-pants
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

During summer break, longtime friends Lena, Tibby, Carmen, and Bridget each embark on adventures that they share with each other through a pair of jeans that they have decided will be worn by all and so will absorb all of their stories.

## Themes

- friendship
- growing up
- family

## Where this book is assigned

### Young Hoosier Book Award

- **recommended** · 7th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award Past Winners (Intermediate grades 4-6 + Middle Grade grades 6-8; annual since 1975)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award Past Winners (Intermediate grades 4-6 + Middle Grade grades 6-8; annual since 1975)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)

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