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Traveling Pants Teen Program Comes to Howland Library
"The Traveling Pants" will be coming from Silverthorne, Colorado, as they make their way cross-country from Santa Cruz, California, to the Howland Public Library in Beacon on Friday, February 16th. These traveling jeans simulate the "magical" jeans in the very popular teen book series and movie, "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" written by Ann Brashares. The original story is about four best friends and the magical thriftstore jeans that they send back and forth during the summer that they travel apart. The pants connect them to each other and transforms an ordinary summer into the best summer of their lives.
Young adult librarians from California got the idea of sending a pair of real jeans to library teen groups all across the country so that they could "meet" and connect with each other in a unique way. They sent out an e-mail via library systems, only to be shocked at the overwhelming response. So now pants will be traveling to almost every state in the U.S. as well as a couple of libraries in Canada and Australia so that teens can sign them and embellish them with gems, buttons, beads, etc. Of course, extra pants will be added along the way. A scrapbook will accompany the pants so that the teens can write to each other and send photos. Although the book is about girlfriends, these traveling pants will include both girls and boys.
The Howland Library's Young Adult Advisory Committee will be getting together on Friday, Feb. 16th at 3:30pm to do their part in autographing the jeans and filling in the scrapbook. They will send the pants on to Fayetteville, NY and then from there they'll be traveling to Sacramento, CA. To track the jean's progress and learn more about the project, visit
www. g a r f i e l d l i b . c o m / pants.htm.
For more information about "The Traveling Pants" or any other teen programs, please contact Ginny Figlia, Youth Services Librarian, at 831-1134, ex.103 or visit
http://beaconlibrary.org.
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