Ivy & Bean Boxed Set: Books 7-9 [Paperback]

New York Timesbest-selling series of books for children - Ivy + Bean

Ivy and Bean, two friends who never meant to like each other:This boxed set,Ivy and Bean Boxed Set: Books 7-9continues the story of these two spunky characters. It includes the third of three books in the Ivy and Bean series.

Author Annie Barrows talks about her award-winning Ivy + Bean series:One of the big problems of being a kid is that your parents often try to make you play with people you don't really like. My parents were forever trying to get me to like the kids of their friends. These kids were often weird. I didn't want to play with them. It was a problem.

Ivy and Bean are very different:Bean is loud and wild and goofy. She loves to be involved in games and poke her nose in other people's business. Ivy is quiet and full of ideas. She spends most of her time learning how to be a witch. Each girl thinks the other one is weird. Each girl thinks she could never be friends with the other. Especially because their parents keep nagging them about it. But sometimes opposites can become the best of friends because they're opposites.

Ivy and Bean Boxed Set: Books 7-9includes:

• Book 7:Ivy + Bean: What's the Big Idea?Wouldn't it be cool if Ivy and Bean found the solution to global warming? Wouldn't it be especially cool if the solution was shimmering pink goo in a test-tube and all the famous scientists in the world wished they had thought of it first? It's Science Fair time at Emerson School, and all the kids are supposed to find a way to cool down the earth. Some kids are planting trees. Some kids are holding their breath for a very, very long time. Some kids are doing interesting things with vacuum cleaners. But what should Ivy and Bean do? Something with explosions? Something with ropes? Something with ice cubes? Or maybe lãÀ