Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
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Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood this book is the third in a series of four books The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, and Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood.
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[edit] Plot summary
It is the girls last summer before college and they all find themselves in different, but challenging situations. They all struggle with their identities, love, and relationships.
[edit] Lena
Lena is taking a figure drawing class at an art school, despite her parents' advice. However, when her father comes into the class and sees her drawing a nude model, he forbids her from taking the class. Lena tries to fund the class herself, but is caught by her father, who then announces that he will not pay for Lena to go to RISD.
Shocked by her father's decision, Lena goes to the class's instructor, Annik Marchand, who advises Lena to try for a scholarship. Lena makes a portfolio of drawings of her family, as well as Paul Rodman, who comes to stay with Carmen and ends up visiting and posing for Lena.
At the end of the summer, Lena mails in her portfolio, and receives word that she has gotten the scholarship. She tells her father, who allows her to attend art school. Now, her relationship with her father is better than ever.
[edit] Tibby
When Brian and Tibby go to the senior party together, and Tibby decides to leave with Brian after a dance to go the places they used to hang out. She tries the 7-11, but finally decides on a park where Brian finally kisses her and tells his feelings to Tibby. The next morning, forgetting that her little sister Katherine has been wanting to get an apple from the tree outside her bedroom window, she leaves her bedroom window open, and Katherine falls out of it in an attempt to pick the apples from the tree. Tibby is thrown into depression, concerned for Katherine and blaming herself for the accident because the window Katherine fell out of was hers. She also begins avoiding Brian, feeling that the accident wouldn't have happened if she hadn't been thinking about him.
Tibby eventually realizes that she can't avoid her problems, and decides to begin taking chances again. Shortly afterward, when Carmen's mother, Christina, goes into labor, Tibby becomes Christina's unwilling labor partner, and helps Christina to be brave enough to have the baby. She later becomes the baby's godmother.
After helping Christina, Tibby finds Brian. The two strip their clothes before jumping over the fence and into the city pool, together, becoming a couple.
[edit] Bridget
Bridget goes to soccer camp in Pennsylvania, and is shocked to discover that one of her fellow coaches is none other than Eric Richman. She finds her feelings for him reawakening, but is stunned by the discovery that he has a girlfriend, Kaya. Bridget plans to begin avoiding Eric, but her plan is shot down when she and Eric are made partners, causing them to see each other constantly.
Not wanting to upset Eric, Bridget selflessly puts her feelings aside and restrains herself to being Eric’s friend while respecting the relationship between Eric and Kaya. The two develop a friendship despite Bridget’s uncertainties.
Later, Bridget comes down with a fever, and Eric finds her in her cabin very ill. Eric carries her to his cabin and he takes care of her. They fall asleep together, and Bridget wakes up to find Eric holding her. Feeling guilty, she tries to break the hold quietly, but her attempts wake up Eric. Bridget feels confused and betrayed when he leaves the camp for an unknown reason, and decides that she won’t hope for his attention anymore. As much as she prided herself on making this summer with Eric different from the first one (where she went after him and had to have him), it began to feel the same because once again she is left wondering why he left her. She trains her soccer team hard, and they go on to defeat Eric’s in the championship.
Bridget later questions Eric about his leaving, and Eric reveals that he returned to New York to break up with his girlfriend due to his feelings for Bridget. At first, Bridget asks Eric if he gets closer to her just to leave her, but he lets her know otherwise. He tells her that he thinks they were always meant to be. Afterwards, they become a couple.
[edit] Carmen
Carmen feels stressed out over her mother’s pregnancy and her job watching Lena’s grandmother, Valia, who has become cranky and sullen ever since she was forced to move to the United States following the death of her husband. Carmen also begins to feel that her leaving for college will leave her unable to return home, and decides to attend the University of Maryland instead of Williams so that she can stay home and retain a part of her old life.
While taking Valia to the hospital one day, Carmen meets Win Sawyer, a college student who volunteers at the hospital. He begins to develop feelings for her, and she for him, but she fears that he only likes her because he assumes that she is a kind and selfless person, and is afraid of telling him the truth.
When Carmen’s mother goes into labor four weeks early, Carmen enlists Tibby to stay with her mother, and together with Win Sawyer heads off to find David, Christina's husband, who is out of town. Together, Tibby and Christina do it and she delivers a baby boy which Carmen names Ryan. After the baby is born, Win and Carmen finally kiss, and leave the hospital hand in hand.
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