I remember reading these when I was younger, they were some of my favorites. Ivy and Bean are two young girls with very creative ideas. This time, they had to come up with a science project that had to do with global warming. They tried many ideas, before finally settling on one in the end of the...
bean sees her sister singing "girls are cool girls are greate girls have the power to cre-ate!" bean suddenly just gets really annoyed when its time to drop her sister nancy to camp. after she drops her off she tells ivy about her sister nancy, and where she was going. as usual,ivy came up with a...
Miri is the only single child in the middle of a family with two sets of twins--older brothers and younger sisters. When the family moves to an old farmhouse Miri accidentally travels back in time to 1935 only to discover Molly, a girl in need of a real family to call her own. A very satisfying c...
“ I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.” January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could ima...
“She still likes you,” Bean said. “Really, she does.” Ivy shook her head. They were supposed to be walking home, but Ivy kept stopping. She felt too awful to walk. “Why didn’t you just say that the bathroom wasn’t haunted?” asked Bean. “Grown-ups never like that kind of stuff.” “But it is haunted...
Boring. Boring! Boring! Bean turned her book upside down and tried to read it that way. Cool. Well, sort of cool. No. Boring. Bean sighed and turned her book back right side up. It was a book about cats that she had picked from the school library. There was a different cat on each page. Bean like...
They were in a corner of Ivy’s backyard. There was a big rock on one side and a small tree on the other. Between them was a perfectly round puddle. “This is the secret spot?” asked Bean. She had expected something more secret looking. Like a cave. “Yes. They’ll never find you here,” said Ivy. “Yo...
Bean shouted into Ivy’s mail slot. “Yoooooo-hooo!” “Hello, Bean,” said Ivy’s mom, opening the front door. “Care for a slice of cucumber?” She was holding a plate of them. Bean wanted to say, Are you nuts? But she knew that wasn’t polite. “No thank you,” she said. “Is Ivy home?” “She’s out in the ...
After a worried moment, the kitten padded to Miri’s side and placed a soft paw on her face. “Yaah!” Miri shot upward in fright. Molly lifted her head. “What happened?” she croaked. “Oh. It’s just Cookie.” Miri exhaled in relief and lay down once more, setting the kitten on her stomach. “Hi, sweet...
For a little while, anyway. We were at the breakfast table, Miss Beck and I, when Father steamed into the kitchen, kicking up a ruckus about where was his hat, he was late, he couldn’t find his hat. Jottie found it, of course, but as Father was leaving, Miss Beck asked, “Where are you off to, in ...
Things were not going the way Bean wanted. Dino pulled a blade of grass from the lawn. “Look!” he yelled. “It’s the Mystery of the Piece of Grass!” Sophie S. kicked off her flip-flop. “Oh my gosh! It’s the Mystery of the Missing Shoe!” Prairie held her finger in front of her face. “I see a myster...
It didn’t have any ocean life in it. What it did have in it were a lot of dishes. “We must be near the cafeteria,” said Ivy. A man walked into the room pushing a cart. He didn’t look surprised to see them, but he didn’t look happy either. “No kids i...