Second-grade best friends Ivy and Bean beg for ballet lessons, then, when they are cast as squids in their first recital, scheme to find a way out of what seems to be boring, hard, and potentially embarrassing.

4) Ivy + Bean bound to be bad

Author

Barrows, Annie

Series

Ivy + Bean volume 5

Publisher

Chronicle Books

Pub. Date

[2008]

Physical Desc

120 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Language

English

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Ivy + Bean

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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.

5) Ivy and Bean take care of the babysitter

Author

Barrows, Annie

Series

Ivy + Bean volume 4

Publisher

Chronicle Books

Pub. Date

c2008

Physical Desc

122 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

Language

English

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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.

6) Ivy + Bean break the fossil record

Author

Barrows, Annie

Series

Ivy + Bean volume 3

Publisher

Chronicle Books

Pub. Date

c2007

Fountas & Pinnell

Physical Desc

114 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

Language

English

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Ivy + Bean

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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.

7) What's the big idea?

Author

Barrows, Annie

Series

Ivy + Bean volume 7

Publisher

Chronicle Books

Pub. Date

c2010

Physical Desc

131 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

Language

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.