Ivy and Bean Books in Order

A school career fair introduces Ivy and Bean to a treasure hunter who uses a metal detector, inspiring the second graders to dig for riches of their own. As classmates uncover coins and curiosities, the pair must rethink what truly counts as treasure.

When a classmate calls Ivy spoiled for being an only child, her feelings are badly bruised. She and Bean try out various ways to become unspoiled, from giving away favorite things to attempting to get a baby sister, with predictably chaotic results.

After watching an old detective movie, Bean decides Pancake Court needs a private investigator. With Ivy as her partner, she hunts for mysteries big enough to solve, from odd noises to a mysterious yellow rope that appears overnight and winds around the neighborhood.

During spring break, Bean’s older sister heads to a special girls’ camp, and Bean feels left behind. She and Ivy create their own Camp Flaming Arrow in the park, complete with homemade crafts, loud tap dancing, zombie first aid, and a crowd of eager campers.

Everyone at school has fancy cheese in red wax except Ivy and Bean, who cannot afford it. To earn money they start a neighborhood newspaper, snooping for stories and learning the hard way what happens when private lives become headline news.

A school science fair about fighting global warming sends Ivy and Bean searching for a project that really helps the planet. Their failed experiments with ice cubes, trampolines, and pretending to be weak finally lead to a simple plan that gets grown ups’ attention.

After reading a dramatic ballet story, Ivy and Bean beg for dance lessons, imagining swirling capes and dangerous moves. Real class turns out to be slow exercises and a recital where they must perform as squids, so the girls scheme to avoid the stage.

Bean is horrified when her bossy older sister Nancy is put in charge as her babysitter for the afternoon. With Ivy’s help, she hatches a plan to prove Nancy is terrible at the job, leading to attic escapades and sibling payback.

Ivy decides to become so pure of heart that birds and animals will flock to her, while Bean volunteers to be as bad as possible so Ivy can practice reforming her. Their experiment in good deeds and mischief quickly slips beyond their control.

Desperate to break a world record, Bean latches onto Ivy’s new obsession with fossils and dinosaurs. Their plan to dig up an amazing skeleton in the neighborhood turns into a messy, muddy project that teaches them more about patience than fame.

Ivy invents a ghost in the school bathroom to avoid doing cartwheels in gym, and soon the whole second grade is terrified of the misty stall. To fix the trouble she caused, Ivy and Bean stage an over the top ghost banishing ceremony.

When Bean’s prank on her older sister goes wrong, she ends up hiding with Ivy, the quiet new neighbor who is secretly studying to be a witch. One wild afternoon of magic, worms, and mischief turns two unlikely girls into best friends.