Traveling Pants

The traveling pants are a pair of jeans that fit all four of the book's main characters even though their bodies are very different shapes and sizes. During the summer they spend apart, the girls ship the pants back and forth to each other, along with letters describing what is going on in their own lives.

Bethesda, Maryland

Bethesda, Maryland is a suburb of Washington, D.C. and the home of Lena, Carmen, Bridget, and Tibby.

Baja, California

Baja, California is a desert community in which Bridget's soccer camp is located.

Santorini, Greece

Santorini is a Greek island where Lena's grandparents live and where she visits them for the summer.

Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston is a city in South Carolina where Carmen's father lives and where she visits him during her 16th summer.

Wallman's

Wallman's is a discount store in Bethesda where Tibby gets a summer...