Brashares, Ann

As their lives take them in different directions, Lena, Tibby, Carmen, and Bridget discover many more things about themselves and the importance of their relationship with each other.

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

Ama, Jo, and Polly, three close friends from Bethesda, Maryland, are looking forward to high school, but wonder if their relationship will survive the challenges that each girl faces over the summer break.

Carmen decides to discard an old pair of jeans, but Tibby, Lena, and Bridget think they are great and decide that whoever the pants fit best will get them. When the jeans fit everyone perfectly, a sisterhood and a memorable summer begin.

High school student Lucy is pursued by Daniel, who claims to have known her in a previous life; and as their relationship continues to grow and Lucy begins to recall the secrets of her past, the mysterious force that separated them in their previous lives reappears.

Alice and her older sister Riley have been coming to their parent's vacation home on Fire Island all their lives, but things change the summer Alice turns twenty-one and their island neighbor and friend Paul, who has been away several years, returns to sell his family's house and finally act on his attraction to Alice.

A biography of the computer programmer who developed Linux.

A biography of the founder of Apple Computer, Inc.

Now in their late twenties and on their own, Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget miss the closeness that sustained them, so when Tibby sends the others plane tickets for a reunion, the four friends find their lives changed in ways none of them anticipated.

During their first summer apart, four teenage girls, best friends since earliest childhood, stay in touch through a shared pair of secondhand jeans that magically adapts to each of their figures and affects their attitudes to their different summer experiences.