3 Willows by Ann Brashares

Random House,  January 2009

Recommended readers – 12+

Cautions: Teenage crushes, divorce

 

Description from publisher:

summer is a time to grow

seeds


Polly has an idea that she can’t stop thinking about, one that involves changing a few things about herself. She’s setting her sights on a more glamorous life, but it’s going to take all of her focus. At least that way she won’t have to watch her friends moving so far ahead.

 


roots

Jo is spending the summer at her family’s beach house, working as a busgirl and bonding with the older, cooler girls she’ll see at high school come September. She didn’t count on a brief fling with a cute boy changing her entire summer. Or feeling embarrassed by her middle school friends. And she didn’t count on her family at all. . .

leaves


Ama is not an outdoorsy girl. She wanted to be at an academic camp, doing research in an air-conditioned library, earning A’s. Instead her summer scholarship lands her on a wilderness trip full of flirting teenagers, blisters, impossible hiking trails, and a sad lack of hair products.
It is a new summer. And a new sisterhood. Come grow with them.

 

Kiwi Magazine Review

This is the new generation of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and these girls do not disappoint. Each character is rich and complex, struggling with family, friends and future as she leaves middle school behind. This book will be the first in a series of three, following the wildly popular Sisterhood series. Expect some of the same themes, but don’t expect any pants.

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