3 Willows
The Sisterhood Grows (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Series, Book 5)
Readers rate it 3.4 (9 on Hardcover)
336 pages · Released Jan 13, 2009 · Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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This fifth book in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series follows three teenage girls navigating summer transitions, self-image, and friendship dynamics. The novel centers on growth, identity, and the complexities of changing relationships as characters move toward high school. While themes are age-appropriate for middle and early high school readers, there is mild language, some sexual references, and moments of emotional vulnerability around embarrassment and insecurity.
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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... 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
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- Friendship in fiction
- Conduct of life
- Conduct of life in fiction
- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations in fiction
- Interpersonal relations
- Best friends in fiction
- Best friends
- Friendship
- Reading Level-Grade 7
- Reading Level-Grade 6
- Reading Level-Grade 9
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ISBN 9780385736763 · Delacorte Books for Young Readers