The moment they saw each other, Bean and Ivy knew they wouldn't be friends. But when Bean plays a joke on her sister, Nancy, and has to hide quickly, Ivy comes to the rescue proving that sometimes the best of friends are people never meant to like each other. Vibrant characters and lots of humor make this a charming and addictive introduction to the Ivy and Bean series.The moment they saw each other, Bean and Ivy knew they wouldn't be friends. But...

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

"¡Hay un fantasma en el baño de chicas del colegio! Eva y Beba han visto su forma de nube y sus ojos brillantes, y han oído sus lamentos. ¡Es lo mejor que ha pasado nunca en el cole! Hasta que lo escubren los profes, claro. ¿Conseguirán Eva y Beba sacar al fantasma del baño? Puede. ¿Se lo pasarán bien juntas? ¡Por supuesto!" --

"After meeting Herman the Treasure Hunter during a career fair at Emerson School, every second-grader is looking for treasure and finding it--except for Ivy and Bean." --