# Ivy and Bean

**Author:** Annie Barrows
**Lexile:** 580L
**Grade range:** Grades 2–4
**Age range:** 6–9
**First published:** 2006
**Page count:** 128
**Genre:** Early Chapter Book
**ISBN-13:** `9780811849098`
**ISBN-10:** `0811849090`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/ivy-and-bean
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Bean is sure she'll never be friends with prissy-looking Ivy across the street — until a scheme to prank Bean's big sister throws them together and reveals Ivy is secretly training to be a witch. Annie Barrows and Sophie Blackall's funny, illustrated first Ivy + Bean book is a grades 2-4 early-chapter staple.

## Themes

- friendship
- family
- humor

## Where this book is assigned

### Common Core State Standards (ELA)

- **recommended** · 2nd grade — [source: Portsmouth Christian Academy — Summer Reading Lists for All Grade Levels](https://pcaschool.org/summer-reading-lists-for-all-grade-levels/)

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