But Tibby says they re great. She'd love to have them. Lena and Bridget also think they re fabulous. Lena decides that they should all try them on. Whoever they fit best will get them.
Nobody knows why, but the pants fit everyone perfectly.
Over a few bags of cheese puffs, they decide to form a sisterhood and take the vow of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants . . . And then the journey of the pants and the most memorable summer of their lives begins. Click here to read an excerpt. When Kit meets John Askew, another boy whose family had both worked and died in the mines, Askew invites Kit to join him in playing a game called Death. Kit s association with Askew takes him into the mines where the boys look to find the childhood ghosts of their long-gone ancestors.