Barrows, Annie

Two sisters, Stella and Marigold, do all the regular things, like go to school, but they also share adventures (both real and imagined) and secret sister things.

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.

Relates three times that nine-year-old Iggy got into trouble, two of which he does not regret and one for which he is very, very sorry.

In a series of amusing comparisons, a boy shows how humans are much more like each other than we are like any other thing on Earth.

Nine-year-old Iggy's attempt to show his parents he is responsible enough to take care of a dog goes hilariously awry.

Nine-year-old Iggy's attempt to show his parents he is responsible enough to take care of a dog goes hilariously awry.

Relates three times that nine-year-old Iggy got into trouble, two of which he does not regret and one for which he is very, very sorry.

In a series of amusing comparisons, a boy shows how humans are much more like each other than we are like any other thing on Earth.

"When Iggy needs to make a bit of money, he conjures up a scheme to help kids con the Tooth Fairy for profit"--Provided by the publisher.

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.