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| Original Title: | 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows |
| ISBN: | 0385736762 (ISBN13: 9780385736763) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Sisterhood #4.5 |
| Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fiction (2009) |
Ann Brashares
Hardcover | Pages: 318 pages Rating: 3.32 | 7709 Users | 819 Reviews
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| Title | : | 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows (Sisterhood #4.5) |
| Author | : | Ann Brashares |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 318 pages |
| Published | : | January 13th 2009 by Delacorte Press (first published 2009) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Fiction. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit. Contemporary. Realistic Fiction |
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summer is a time to growseeds
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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Ratings: 3.32 From 7709 Users | 819 ReviewsRate Epithetical Books 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows (Sisterhood #4.5)
4.5 starsIts somehow at once more heartbreaking and more hopeful than Sisterhood, and I was full-on weeping by the end (bear in mind that it takes A LOT for me to shed tears over a book). I connected so deeply with aspects of all three girls, and I particularly loved the exploration of empathy and support networks and true friendship vs superficial relationships.TW: grief, alcoholism, dieting/dramatic weight loss, cheating (slightly)A nice, well-written friendship story that still bears a style recognizable as Brashares', but with not quite the same level of power, bittersweetness, and warm truth that the original Sisterhood series gave us.First, don't pick up this book expecting it to be any sort of continuation of Sisterhood; while there are a few very brief cameos of those characters (Lena is seen for a couple sentences, Bridget is mentioned in passing, and there's a short but sweet appearance by Brian and his
This book is by Ann Brashares, who is also the author of the bestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series. 3 Willows is a branch off of the series. The main characters are three girls who live in the same neighborhood of the girls of the original sisterhood, and two have even made their acquaintance with them. Basically, the main characters are three girls who used to be best friends, but have found that their changing personalities have made them go separate ways. When they were best
3.5/5 starsThis was a great summer read.The story is good, but not nearly as engaging or emotional as the one from the "original girls". I was very annoyed with the characters at times, as they were beyond juvenile and most of their choices made me cringe with second hand embarrassment. But as the story progressed- so did the characters, each in their own way.Overall, I don't feel like this book is necessary to the series, at all. This is just a side story. Something to stretch out the books.
I wish Brashares had gone a different route, rather than try to create another "sisterhood" in this bland book. 3 Willows is set in the same town/universe as the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series. However, both it's characters and plot are contrived. Brashares makes tenuous links between her new character's lives and those of the original sisterhood. For example Polly babysits for Tibby's little brother and sister, but there isn't any real connection made between these girls and the old
uggh, where to start...Ok, is it fair to judge adolescent fiction the same way I would judge adult fiction? I think so, because I honestly found the first Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants enjoyable. As the original series progressed I found, as with most series, in an effort to maintain continuity (and sales, I'm sure), the books were published in such rapid succession that they were neither as well-edited or as original as the first(anybody who read the Twilight series should also know where
3 Willows is a book about three girls who have been friends since they were young. But ever since middle school they have drifted apart. I think that the author compared their friendship to a willow tree. One of the girls, Jo has begun to realize who her real friends are, and that you don't have to change to feel accepted. Ama thought that there was nothing worse than going to an outdoor camp and having no hair products. Yet she was wrong. Polly, thought she could change herself to fit a more
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