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Girls in Pants: Random House Children's Books

Autor Ann Brashares
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 iun 2006

Descoperim în Girls in Pants un moment de cotitură emoționant pentru cvartetul pe care cititorii l-au îndrăgit încă din primele volume. Deși nu este o carte cu activități practice, interactivitatea acestui roman rezidă în modul în care cititorul este invitat să „participe” la tradiția celor patru prietene: lansarea ritualică a perechii magice de blugi în cea de-a treia lor călătorie de vară. Remarcăm cum Ann Brashares reușește să păstreze prospețimea dialogului, integrând în același timp gravitatea iminentă a despărțirii, pe măsură ce fetele se pregătesc pentru facultăți în orașe diferite. Subliniem faptul că, deși blugii rămân simbolul central, miza reală a cărții este maturizarea individuală. Copiii și adolescenții care au iubit The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants vor găsi aici aceeași camaraderie profundă și umor, dar într-un context nou, mai matur, unde „magia” pantalonilor este testată de realitățile vieții de adult. Față de explorările fantastice sau istorice din alte lucrări ale autoarei, cum este Westfallen, unde destinul este modelat de evenimente externe majore, aici accentul cade pe deciziile personale și pe curajul de a păstra legăturile sufletești în ciuda distanței geografice. Ritmul este alert, susținut de alternanța perspectivelor celor patru protagoniste, oferind o experiență de lectură complexă și plină de viață.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780553375930
ISBN-10: 0553375938
Pagini: 386
Dimensiuni: 142 x 208 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Random House
Colecția Random House Children's Books
Seria Random House Children's Books


De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte adolescenților de peste 12 ani care trec prin perioade de tranziție. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege că schimbarea nu înseamnă finalul prieteniilor adevărate. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă onestă asupra provocărilor maturizării, învățând alături de personajele preferate cum să gestioneze frica de necunoscut și bucuria noilor începuturi, totul într-un stil literar cald și accesibil.


Despre autor

Ann Brashares, născută în 1967, este o renumită scriitoare americană de literatură pentru tineret, celebră la nivel mondial pentru seria The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Capacitatea sa de a surprinde vocea autentică a adolescenței a transformat cărțile sale în succese editoriale și ecranizări populare. Deși a explorat și teme speculative în romane precum My Name Is Memory, Brashares rămâne fidelă explorării relațiilor umane profunde, fiind apreciată pentru modul în care tratează vulnerabilitatea și loialitatea în literatura contemporană pentru adolescenți.


Extras

Granted, Tibby was in a mood. All she could see was change. All anybody talked about was change. She didn’t like Bee’s wearing heels for the second day in a row. She felt peevish about Lena’s getting three inches trimmed off her hair. Couldn’t everybody just leave everything alone for a few minutes?
Tibby was a slow adjuster. In preschool, her teachers had said she had trouble with transitions. Tibby preferred looking backward for information rather than forward. As far as she was concerned, she’d take a nursery school report card over a fortune-teller any day of the week. It was the cheapest and best self-analysis around.
Tibby saw Gilda’s through these same eyes. It was changing. Its glory days of the late nineteen eighties were far behind it. It was showing its age. The once-shiny wood floor was scratched and dull. One of the mirror panels was cracked. The mats looked as old as Tibby, and they’d been cleaned much less. Gilda’s was trying to get with the times, offering kickboxing and yoga, according to the big chalkboard, but it didn’t look to Tibby like that was helping much. What if it went out of business? What a horrible thought. Maybe Tibby should buy a subscription of classes here? No, that would be weird, wouldn’t it?
“Tibby, you ready?” Lena was looking at her with concerned eyebrows.
“What if Gilda’s closes?” Tibby opened her mouth, and that was what came out.
Carmen, holding the Traveling Pants, Lena, lighting the candles, Bee, fussing with the dimmer switches near the door, all turned to her.
“Look at this place.” Tibby gestured around. “I mean, who comes here?”
Lena was puzzled. “I don’t know. Somebody. Women. Yoga people.”
“Yoga people?” Carmen asked.
“I don’t know,” Lena said again, laughing.
Tibby was the one most capable of emotional detachment, but tonight it all lay right on the surface. Her irrational thoughts about Gilda’s made her feel desperate, like its demise could swallow up their whole existence—like a change in the present could wipe out the past. The past felt fragile to her. But the past was set, right? It couldn’t be changed. Why did she feel such a need to protect it?
“I think it’s Pants time,” Carmen said. The snacks were out. The candles were lit. The egregiously bad dance music played.
Tibby wasn’t sure she wanted it to be Pants time yet. She was having enough trouble maintaining control. She was scared of them noticing what all this meant.
Too late. Out of Carmen’s arms came the artifacts of their ritual. The Pants, slowly unfolding from their winter compression, seeming to gain strength as they mixed with the special air of Gilda’s. Carmen laid them on the ground, and on top of them the manifesto, written on that first night two years before, describing the rules of wearing them. Silently they formed their circle, studying the inscriptions and embroidery that chronicled their summer lives.
“Tonight we say good-bye to high school, and bye to Bee for a while,” Carmen said in her ceremonial voice. “We say hello to summer, and hello to the Traveling Pants.”
Her voice grew less ceremonial. “Tonight we are not worrying about good-bye to each other. We’re saving that for the beach at the end of the summer. That’s the deal, right?”
Tibby felt like kissing Carmen. Brave as she was, even Carmen was daunted by the implications of looking ahead.
“That’s the deal,” Tibby agreed heartily.
The last weekend of the summer had already become sacred in their minds. Sacred and feared. The Morgans owned a house right on the beach in Rehoboth. They had offered it to Carmen for that final weekend, in part, Carmen suspected, because they had gotten an au pair from Denmark and felt guilty about not hiring Carmen to babysit this summer as she had done the summer before.
The four of them had promised each other in the spring that it would be their weekend. The four of them and nobody else. They all depended upon it. The future was unfurling fast, but whatever happened this summer, that weekend stood between them and the great unknown.
They all looked ahead to college in different ways, Tibby knew. They all had different amounts to lose. Bee, in her lonely house, had nothing. Carmen did; she dreaded saying good-bye to her mother. Tibby feared leaving the familiarity of her chaos. Lena flipped and flopped—one day she was afraid to cut ties, and the next she was dying to get away.
The thing they feared equally and powerfully was saying good-bye to one another.
After drawing for the Pants (Tibby won), reviewing the rules (unnecessary, but still part of tradition), and taking a brief hiatus to chew down some Gummi Worms, it was at last time for the vow. Like they had the summer before, they said it together.
“To honor the Pants and the Sisterhood
And this moment and this summer and the rest of our lives
Together and apart.”
Only this time, Tibby felt the tears fall when they said “the rest of our lives.” Because in the past that had always seemed like a distant road, and tonight, she knew in her heart, they were already on it.


From the Hardcover edition.

Descriere scurtă

The Pants first came to us at the perfect moment. That is, when we were splitting up for the first time. It was two summers ago when they first worked their magic, and last summer when they shook up our lives once again. You see, we don’t wear the Pants year-round. We let them rest so they are extra powerful when summer comes. (There was the time this spring when Carmen wore them to her mom’s wedding, but that was a special case.)

Now we’re facing our last summer together. In September we go to college. And it’s not like one of those TV shows where all of us magically turn up at the same college. We’re going to four different colleges in four different cities (but all within four hours of one another—that was our one rule). We’re headed off to start our real lives.

Tomorrow night at Gilda’s we’ll launch the Pants on their third summer voyage. Tomorrow begins the time of our lives. It’s when we’ll need our Pants the most.


From the Hardcover edition.

Recenzii

"Readers of the other books won't be disappointed." - Booklist, Starred

"Filled with conversations, action, & life." - Kliatt, Starred

"The girls are once again wonderfully drawn, with all their realistic faults." - Publishers Weekly

"The Pants set will bruise their fingertips on this page-turner." - The Bulletin, Recommended


From the Paperback edition.

Notă biografică

Ann Brashares is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, 3 Willows, The Last Summer (of You & Me) and My Name is Memory. She lives in New York City with her husband and four children.

Descriere

It's been two summers since the Traveling Pants first worked their magic on four young friends, who are now facing their last summer together. The girls will be leaving to attend four different colleges in four different cities. They plan to gather to launch the Pants on their summer voyage and begin the time of their lives. Young Adult.