Annie Barrows
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Ivy + Bean (Series) volume 5
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Best friends Ivy and Bean learn that being very good, or very bad, can be a real challenge when they set out to become like a man Ivy heard about who was so pure of heart that birds and animals followed him.
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In the summer of 1938, Layla Beck's father, a United States senator, cuts off her allowance and demands that she find employment on the Federal Writers' Project, a New Deal jobs program. Within days, Layla finds herself far from her accustomed social whirl, assigned to cover the history of the remote mill town of Macedonia, West Virginia, and destined, in her opinion, to go completely mad with boredom. But once she secures a room in the home of the...
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Ivy + Bean (Series) volume 3
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Everyone in second grade seems set on breaking a world record and friends Ivy and Bean are no exception, deciding to become the youngest people ever to discover a dinosaur skeleton.
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Ivy + Bean (Series) volume 2
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Second-graders Ivy and Bean set out to expel the ghost who is living in the girls' bathroom at their school.
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Ivy + Bean (Series) volume 4
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When Bean's parents leave her in the care of her older sister Nancy for the afternoon, she enlists her neighbor and best friend Ivy to come over and teach Nancy how to be a really good babysitter.
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Ivy + Bean (Series) volume 9
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English
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Seven-year-old Bean is too young to go to the camp her sister Nancy is attending, so she and her best friend Ivy decide to create their own camp.
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Ivy + Bean (Series) volume 7
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English
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When all the second grade students must enter the science fair, which has global warming as its theme, best friends Ivy and Bean team up to create an unusual project.
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Ivy + Bean (Series) volume 8
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Ivy and Bean try to make money by writing a newspaper about Pancake Court but the neighbors are not pleased to read about themselves.
11) Ivy + Bean
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Ivy + Bean (Series) volume 1
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When seven-year-old Bean plays a mean trick on her sister, she finds unexpected support for her antics from Ivy, the new neighbor, who is less boring than Bean first suspected.
12) The magic half
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Eleven-year-old Miri Gill feels left out in her family, which has two sets of twins and her, until she travels back in time to 1935 and discovers Molly, her own lost twin, and brings her back to the present day.
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Ivy + Bean (Series) volume 11
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"Ivy's worried. She's read a lot of books about only children, so she knows that they are usually spoiled rotten. They don't share their toys. They never do any work. They scream and cry when they don't get their way. Spoiler alert! Ivy doesn't have any brothers and sisters. That's why she's worried. How can she keep from getting spoiled? She could give away all her clothes, but she'd probably get in trouble. She could give away all her toys, but...
15) Like
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In a series of amusing comparisons, a boy shows how humans are much more like each other than we are like any other thing on Earth.
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Iggy volume 3
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English
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Lovable troublemaker Iggy learns about the power of interpretation when one of his genius plans goes wrong.
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Ivy + Bean (Series) volume 10
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English
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After watching a movie about a detective on the television, Bean decides to set up shop as a private investigator--and she and Ivy start looking for mysteries to solve.
19) Magic in the mix
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Life seems to be back to normal for "newly twinned" sisters Miri and Molly until their magical house sends them on a new time-traveling adventure to the Civil War, where they must risk everything to save two unusual soldiers and come to terms with the emotional truth about Molly's past.
20) Ivy and Bean
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A Netflix Original Film Series
A New York Times Bestselling Series
Over 8 Million Copies Sold
"A lively, entertaining read with heart" – Common Sense Media
"Only a stooge couldn't love Ivy and Bean" – Kirkus Reviews
Meet Ivy & Bean. Bean has lots of friends, loves stomping in puddles and hates being bored. Ivy has just moved in next door. Ivy seems nice, wears dresses and sparkly headbands – which...
"A lively, entertaining read with heart" – Common Sense Media
"Only a stooge couldn't love Ivy and Bean" – Kirkus Reviews
Meet Ivy & Bean. Bean has lots of friends, loves stomping in puddles and hates being bored. Ivy has just moved in next door. Ivy seems nice, wears dresses and sparkly headbands – which...