Best friends Ivy and Bean are back and looking for adventure in the second installment of this engaging new series. This time they've made an amazing discoverya ghost in the school bathroom! Ivy and Bean can see its cloudy form and its glowing eyes. They can hear its moaning voice. This is the be...
I had heard so much about these books from kids. Last year, my son read all that he could get his hands on. My son's friends talk about them because their teacher is reading them to the class. They all say how much they love these books, how funny they are, how much they love when the teacher rea...
World record fever grips the second grade, and soon Ivy and Bean are trying to set their own record by becoming the youngest people to have ever discovered a dinosaur. But how hard is it to find one?
An engaging historical story (a true account it seems, based on the childhood of Shirin Yim Bridges' own grandmother), Ruby's Wish tells the story of Ruby, a young Chinese girl growing up in a large household, where the enlightened patriarch (Ruby's grandfather) allows both girls and boys to be e...
said a big sign over the cafeteria door. There was the Principal, standing by the door, saying hello to parents. She was smiling, but Bean thought you could never be too careful about principals. “I know a shortcut,” she said to her mom and dad. “Let’s go through the kitchen.” Once they were insi...
said Bean as they walked away from Sophie W.’s house. “You know how Ms. Aruba-Tate is always saying how important it is to understand other people?” Ivy said. “I think I understand people a lot more after I look in their windows.” Sophie W.’s mom had had blue goo all over her face. Also, most of ...