Ivy and Bean - Annie Barrows [11]
Bean jumped up. She just had to do twelve cartwheels. “Stand back!” she yelled.
“Wait,” said Zuzu. “What about Ivy? Aren’t you going to do a cartwheel, Ivy?”
“I’m guarding the jackets,” said Ivy.
“But Ivy, this is the Gymnastics Club,” said Zuzu. “You can’t just guard jackets.”
Why not? Ivy wondered
“We’ll teach you how if you don’t know,” said Emma.
“She knows,” said Bean. “She can do a cartwheel. I’ve seen her.”
Ivy looked at Bean in surprise. Why was she saying that? Ivy had never done a cartwheel in her life. Slowly, Ivy put her sandwich down next to Emma’s jacket. “There’s just one little problem—” she began.
“Hey, Leo!” yelled Bean suddenly. “You better watch out. If I get hit with that ball, there’s going to be trouble!”
Leo was the head of the soccer kids at Emerson School. Before there was a Gymnastics Club, the soccer kids had the whole field to themselves during lunch recess. When Bean and Emma and Zuzu and Ivy started the Gymnastics Club, they kept getting hit with soccer balls. One day, Bean got clobbered in the stomach, and she declared war on the soccer kids. She came to school with a bag of ripe plums and chased Leo down. When she caught him, she sat on him and rubbed plums into his hair. Rose the Yard Duty had been really mad. She told Leo and Bean that they had to work it out, or she would kick them all off the field.
So Bean and Leo worked it out. The Gymnastics Club was supposed to have all the grass near the play structure. The soccer kids were supposed to keep their balls from hitting the Gymnastics Club. Bean promised not to bring plums to school anymore. After that, the war was mostly over.
But now Leo looked mad. “It’s not even near you!” he yelled. He was right. The ball was on the other side of the field, near MacAdam, a weird kid who sat under the trees and ate dirt when he thought no one was looking.
“Okay!” yelled Bean, feeling like a dork. She had only been trying to help Ivy.
“Like I was saying, I can’t do a cartwheel at the moment,” said Ivy.
“Why?” asked Zuzu with her hands on her hips.
“Because,” Ivy said again. “We’ve got an emergency situation going on. Right over there.” She pointed.
Emma, Zuzu, and Bean followed Ivy’s pointing finger across the playground. She was pointing directly to the girls’ bathroom. The one right outside their classroom.
Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
CONTENTS
NO THANKS
BEAN HATCHES A PLAN
THE GHOST OF PANCAKE COURT
BEAN MEETS IVY
IVY HATCHES A PLAN
BEWARE
EASY-PEASY
BEAN’S BACKYARD
THE SPELL
NO DESSERT
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