Second-graders Ivy and Bean set out to expel the ghost who is living in the girls' bathroom at their school.

Best friends Ivy and Bean learn that being very good, or very bad, can be a real challenge when they set out to become like a man Ivy heard about who was so pure of heart that birds and animals followed him.

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.

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.

"Nada más verse, Eva y Beba se caen fatal. Pero cuando Beba le gasta a una broma a su hermana y tiene que acabar escondiéndose de ella (¡y rápido!), Eva corre a rescatarla con su varita mágica, con un poco de pintura de cara y con un cubo lleno de lombrices... ¿Acabarán Eva y Beba metidas en un lío? Puede. ¿Se lo pasarán bien juntas? ¡Por supuesto!"--

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 classmate Vanessa insists that all single children are spoiled, Ivy wonders whether she can become "unspoiled" by giving away all her clothes at school (which does not go over well with her teacher or parents)--but ultimately decides that all she needs to accomplish her goal is a little sister