Brashares’s ‘Sisterhood’ Set to Expand
By John A. Sellers -- Publishers Weekly, 7/22/2008
Next January, Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers will publish 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows, which follows three girls entering the same high school featured in the author’s bestselling four-book series, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. “These three girls are going off to high school and their big fear is how things will change,” said Wendy Loggia, executive editor at Delacorte, who edits Brashares. “They’re already seeing some of the middle-school connections and friendships start to shift. It doesn’t come as easy for them—there are no magic pants in this sisterhood.” Random House plans a 500,000-copy first printing, and the Listening Library imprint will publish the book simultaneously in audio.
3 Willows will be followed by two additional novels starring the new characters, though pub dates for those have not yet been set. “Ann
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All four Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants novels were bestsellers and have sold more than eight million copies in North America, with foreign rights sold in 42 languages. On August 6, the Alcon Entertainment and Warner Bros. film The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, based largely on the plot of the fourth book in the series, Forever in Blue, will debut in movie theaters nationwide.
