The Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants
Carmen spends the summer visiting her dad, Al in South Carolina. She arrives to learn that he is in fact engaged. Angry that he seems to be replacing her family, she spends the summer in an awful mood. After an incident where her stepmother purchases a dress much too small for Carmen's slightly chubby frame, thus humiliating her completely, she runs away. She later returned so as not to worry them, and finds them eating dinner happily without her. Her hurt feelings and temper lead her to throw a rock through her father's dining room window and then runs away again. She gathers her things in the middle of the night and takes a bus back to Washington. After speaking with her mother, Tibby, and Bailey, she phones her father and confronts him about her feelings. After resolving matters with him, she attends his and Lydia's wedding, despite wearing jeans (the Traveling Pants), and they welcome her into the new family.
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