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"Ivy and Bean decide to write a newspaper in order to buy some special cheese, but their sweep through the neighborhood leads to interesting stories and even more interesting reactions after their neighbors read it."

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.

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.

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.

When classmate Vanessa insists that all single children are spoiled, Ivy wonders whether she can become "unspoiled" by giving away all her clothes at school (which does not go over well with her teacher or parents)--but ultimately decides that all she needs to accomplish her goal is a little sister.

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.

Ivy and Bean try to make money by writing a newspaper about Pancake Court but the neighbors are not pleased to read about themselves.

Bean's older sister, Nancy, is going to Girl Power 4-Ever Camp, where she will do things that Bean will never know about. Bean doesn't care. She doesn't want to go to camp. Wait a second! Bean and Ivy can make their own camp, their own better camp. Illustrations.

"Watch out! There's a Career Fair at Emerson School, and all the students have to choose what they want to be when they grow up. No problem. Ivy and Bean already have that all figured out. At least they thought so, until they meet Herman the Treasure Hunter. Pretty soon everyone in the second grade is looking for treasure-- and finding it. Everyone except for Ivy and Bean, that is. Where are their jewels, their gold, their money? Ivy and Bean need...