This book is both a guilty pleasure for me (I LOVE this series, and the movies) and also, to me, anyway, a reminder that young adult literature dealing with girls and written with girls in mind don't have to be all about sex, drugs, and cat fights. With series like Gossip Girl becoming so overwhelmingly popular and providing young girls with poor role models, I can't stress enough the value I find in a series like The Sisterhood. The four young ladies represented in the novel, Lena, Bridget, Carmen, and Tibby are models of honest, interesting, talented young girls who are perfectly happy being and acting the age that they are.
I wouldn't use this book as a class text, but I think it would be a good option to offer in a literature circle set up or to suggest as free reads and have in the classroom library.
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oh, I so loved all of these books. and, was so sad to finish them, sad I would not get to spend any more time with these characters.
You make excellent points about what these books offer, how they paint a positive picture of the characters and their lives.
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