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of the evidence,” said Bean, busily pulling the bag of salt, the Band-Aids, the string, and the underwear out of her backpack. She stuffed it all under her bed.

Ivy did the same.

“Jeez!” Bean slumped against her bed. “What a day.”

Ivy lay down on the floor. “I’m pooped.”

“Are you trying on those costumes?” shouted Bean’s mother from downstairs.

“Sheesh,” said Bean, getting up. “Work, work, work. That’s all I do.” The white leotards lay across her bed, stuffed tights legs tangled around them. “Come on,” said Bean. “You have to try yours on, too.”

Ivy sighed and got up. Together they untangled the tights legs and got undressed and pulled on the white leotards. Bean looked at Ivy in her white leotard with ten white legs dangling from her waist.

Ivy looked at Bean. “I don’t think Madame Joy has ever seen a real squid,” she said.

Bean thought about the long, blubbery white legs. It made her head prickle. “Remember its legs?”

Ivy nodded. “And its eye? Remember how it looked at us?”

“Like it was excited. Like it could hardly wait to squeeze the life out of us,” said Bean.

“Like we were food,” agreed Ivy.

“Squids are not friendly,” Bean announced.

Ivy lifted up one of her white tights legs and shook it. “A real squid would wrap its legs around Dulcie and squish her.”

Bean giggled. “And then it would eat the starfish and the sea horses.” She bonked Ivy with one of her tights legs. “And the prince.”

Ivy bonked her back. “And then it would look at the audience with its humongo eye and say, ‘And you people are my dessert.’”

There was a pause.

“You know,” Bean said thoughtfully, “we could use your face paint to make big black eyes.”

There was another pause. Ivy and Bean looked at each other.

“Madame Joy will kill us,” said Ivy.

“We won’t do anything,” said Bean. “We’ll just look more like real squids. She won’t mind.”

“In a way, she should be glad,” said Ivy. “We’ll be teaching everyone what squids are really like.”

“Yeah, it’s educational,” said Bean. For the first time, she felt a little bit excited about being a squid. “And maybe, at the very end, after the rest of the dance is over, we can be two squid trying to squeeze the life out of each other.”

“Yeah!” said Ivy cheerfully. “Like this!” She jumped at Bean and wrapped three of her tentacles around Bean’s arm.

Bean hit Ivy over the head with a tights leg and growled. The two unfriendly squids bashed and squeezed each other until they had to lie down on the floor.

“You know what?” said Bean after a minute.

“What?” said Ivy.

“By the time we get through with it, ‘Wedding Beneath the Sea’ is going to be a lot like Giselle. Only more exciting.”

Ivy smiled. “Plus more scientific.”

“I just knew we’d end up liking ballet!” said Bean happily.

THE END

Table of Contents

Cover

Contents

Copyright

Ivy + Bean Book 4: Take Care of the Babysitter

Contents: Ivy + Bean Book 4

TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE

DISASTER TWINS

THE SPECIAL EXPERIMENT

WHO’S IN CHARGE?

THE UNDERSHIRT OF FREEDOM

WHERE ARE YOU, MISS PEPPY-PANTS?

THE DOOR IN THE CEILING

UH-OH

A WORLD OF TROUBLE

ONE IS SILVER AND THE OTHER’S GOLD

JUST DESSERTS

Ivy + Bean Book 5: Bound to be Bad

Contents: Ivy + Bean Book 5

A PAIN IN THE KAZOO

TOUGH COOKIES

BIRD BRAINS

A CRUMMY PLAN

A GOOD BAD IDEA

THE WORST WORD IN THE WORLD

BEAN, QUEEN OF BAD

FROM BAD TO WORSE

BEAN OVERBOARD!

THE REVENGE OF DINO

GOOD AND SOGGY

THE FIRST AND BEST IVY AND BEAN QUIZ!

Ivy + Bean Book 6: Doomed to Dance

Contents: Ivy + Bean Book 6

BALLET OR BUST

DIP, DIP, CRASH!

BAD NEWS BENEATH THE SEA

SQUIDS IN A FIX

GERMS OF HOPE

TIGHT TENTACLES

BYE-BYE, BALLET

VERY FISHY

OCEAN LIFE GONE BAD

IN HOT WATER

SQUIDARINAS