Ivy and Bean Take the Case

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written by annie barrows+ illustrated by sophie blacka

TAKE

THE

CASE

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* An ALA Notable Childrens Book

* A BooklistEditors Choice

* A Kirkus ReviewsBest Book of the Year

* A Book LinksBest New Book for the Classroom* A New York Public Library 100 Titles

for Reading and Sharing selection

* A Peoplemagazines Summers Hottest Reads selection


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To Victoria Rock, mentor, strategist,

and fellow subversive, with gratitude.

A. B. + S. B.

CONTENTS

BLACK AND WHITE AND TOUGH ALL OVER 7

PIRVATE INSTEVIGATOR 17

UNDER COVER JOB 29

SPECIAL DELIVERY 36

WHATS UP? 47

PANCAKE FALLS 56

HOUSE CALLS 65

PLAN AHEAD! 72

THE BIG NAB 85

DANGER MAKES THEM YAWN 97

AT THE END OF THEIR ROPE 109

CRACK! 119

Text 2013 by Annie Barrows.Illustrations 2013 by Sophie Blackall.All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form

without written permission from the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Barrows, Annie.Ivy + Bean take the case / written by Annie Barrows ; illustrated by Sophie Blackall.p. cm. (Ivy + Bean ; bk. 10)Summary: After watching a movie about a detective on the television,Bean decides to set up shop as a private investigatorand she and Ivy startlooking for mysteries to solve.ISBN 978-1-4521-0699-1 (alk. paper)1. Bean (Fictitious character : Barrows)Juvenile fiction. 2. Ivy (Fictitious character:Barrows)Juvenile fiction. 3. Private investigatorsJuvenile fiction. 4. Best friendsJuvenile fiction. 5. Humorous stories. [1. Mystery and detective stories. 2. PrivateinvestigatorsFiction. 3. Best friendsFiction. 4. FriendshipFiction. 5. Humorousstories.] I. Blackall, Sophie. ill. II. Title. III. Title: Ivy and Bean take the case. IV. Series:Barrows, Annie. Ivy + Bean ; bk. 10.

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Book design by Sara Gillingham Studio.Typeset in Blockhead and Candida.The illustrations in this book were rendered in Chinese ink.

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BLACK AND

WHITE AND

TOUGH ALL OVER

Bean wasnt allowed to watch television. O

music videos. Beans mom said she coul

watch two movies a week, but they had t

be movies where everyone was good. Ther

couldnt be any bad words. There couldnbe any mean people. There couldnt b

anyone smoking a cigarette or wearing tin

clothes. There were only about ten movie

that followed all these rules. Luckily, Bea

liked all ten of them. She watched them ove

and over.


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Beans mom said ten movies were plenty.

She said kids Beans age should be using their

imaginations instead of watching TV. She said

fresh air was more important than movies.

And then what did she do?

She made Bean watch a movie. It was her

favorite movie, she said. Everyone should see

it at least once, she said. The movie was called

Seven Falls,but it wasnt about waterfalls or

even the leaf-falling kind of

fall, which is what Beanhad guessed. It was

about a guy named

Al Seven. Boy, was

he tough! He was

so tough he talked

without moving his

lips, and some of it

was bad words.

He was also kind of mean. Everyone in th

movie was kind of mean, plus they all smoke

cigarettes. They didnt wear tiny clothes, bu

that was the only rule they didnt break.

I cant believe youre letting me watc

this, said Bean.

Seven Fallsis a classic, said Beans mom

Its one of the greatest movies ever made.

Dont be a stooge, said Al Seven t

another movie guy. That was pretty mean, bu

Bean pretended not to notice, because thiwas one of the greatest movies ever made. A

Seven was also in black and white, but Bean

knew she was supposed to imagine he wa

in color. What is it about dames? asked A

Seven, walking slowly down a rainy stree

They break your heart, I guess, he answere

himself.

That was the end.


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Beans mom let out a big, happy sigh.

Wasnt that amazing? Did you get it?

Get what? Bean wasnt sure, but she

nodded. Im going to be just like Al Seven

when I grow up.

Her mother raised one eyebrow. Youd

better not be.

But then again, why wait, thought Bean.

She could start being like Al Seven now. She

slumped over and put her feet on the coffee

table. Whaddaya say we watch it again,pal? she said.

Her mom raised both eyebrows.

What I say is dont call me pal

and take your feet off the

table.

That hadnt worked. Bean

took her feet off the table. Dames,

she said sadly. They break your heart.

Her moms eyebrows were almost insid

her hair. Oh dear, she said.


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It took Bean a long time to go to sleep that

night. She couldnt stop thinking about Al

Seven and his black-and-white world. It didnt

seem like the real world, the world on Pancake

Court that Bean lived in. People in Al Sevens

world were tough, and they didnt laugh ver

much. They didnt do normal stuff like go t

school and the grocery store. They walke

down alleys and wore hats. But the mos

un-normal thing about Al Sevens world wa

the mysteries. There were mysteries all ove

the place.

Bean untwisted her pajamas and though

about that. A mystery was a question yo

couldnt find the answer to. In Al Seven

world, the mysteries were things like Whtook Hesters jewels? or Where was Samm

La Barba on the night of May twelfth

Bean didnt have any jewels and she sur

as heck didnt know anyone named Samm

La Barba, but there were plenty of question

that she didnt have answers to. Millions o

them. For instance, Who thought of money

Not even grown-ups knew the answer to tha

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PIRVATE

INSTEVIGATOR

Al Seven had a cool office with his name on

the door. Bean could do that, easy-peasy. Sh

began with the desk. Bean had a good board

and she had two triangle things that wer

called sawhorses even though they didnt loo

anything like horses. She put the sawhorse

on the front lawn, and then she put the boaron top of the sawhorses. Desk! The spinn

chair was a little harder. Bean had to yank

up the basement stairs, yank, yank, yank. An

just when she got to the top, it fell back dow

most of the stairs. It was already broken, but

was more broken after it fell down the stairs


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What the heck are you doing, Bean?

called her father from the

kitchen.

Im trying to get this

chair up the stairs!

shouted Bean.

Do you want help?

Bean thought about

that. Al Seven had a helper,

a lady named Dolly.

Mostly, Dolly lit Alscigarette, but Bean

figured she would have

carried a chair if Al had asked her

to. Yes, please.

Her dad came down to the basement

and carried the spinny chair up the stairs.

He even carried it out to the front yard.

Thanks, pal, said

Bean.

Her dad said,

Dont call me pal.

Youre welcome.

Bean put the chair

behind the desk and

sat in it. She spun

around. Pretty good.

But she wasnt done

yet. She needed tolook tough enough to

solve a mystery. She

needed a hat. She

was pretty sure there

was one upstairs, in

the closet of things

no one wanted.


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She was right! On the highest shelf of

things no one wanted, covered with dust,

was a hat. It was sort of grayish, sort of

brownish. It smelled funny.

When Bean put it on, she

could hardly see. It was a

little dangerous, walking

around in that hat, but Al

Seven said, Danger makes me laugh.

While Bean was climbing down from

the shelf, she found something she hadntexpected, something great. It was a telephone,

an old one with two parts and a cord. Perfect!

Al Seven was always slamming the phone

down on people. Bean slammed the phone

down a few times to test

it. So long, pal, she

whispered. With the

hat on her head

and the phone under her arm, Bean wen

downstairs to her moms recycling bin.

Beans moms recycling bin was always fu

of important-looking papers. Papers with rub

ber stampings all over them. Papers wit

typing in three different colors. Paper

with sticky notes. Today was a good day in th

bin. Papers were spilling out the sides. Als

big envelopes. And file folders! What a hau

Since she was already down on the floor, Bea

took a look in her moms wastebasket. Fivthousand lipstick tissues and a plastic pictur

of an alligator lying on a log. Words comin

out of the alligators mouth said, Sure Im

working. Im working so fast you cant see it.

Bean stared at the plastic picture for

long time. Was the alligator working or was

supposed to be funny? Did grown-ups think i

was funny? If they did, why? It was a mystery


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But, Bean decided, not a very interesting one

With her hat, her phone, and an armful o

paper, Bean went outside.

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Bean was a good artist. She

could draw nice stuff like

flowers and cute bugs and

dancing bagels, but she

could also draw serious

stuff like science pictures

and pyramids. Her sign wasserious. She wanted it to

look like a real, grown-up

sign. Al Sevens sign said Al

Seven, Private Investigator.

Bean wanted a sign like

that. She began to write in

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Beans last name was really long. It was so

long that sometimes she mixed up the letters.

She mixed up the letters.

Bean got another piece of paper. Bean, she

wrote in big, serious letters. Good.

Private. Good.

Investigator. Oops. Instevigator.

Bean got another piece of paper.

Bean. Good.

Pirvate. Oops.

Bean got another piece of paper. Bean. Good.

Prvaoops. Bean crumpled the paper and

threw it on the ground.

She got another piece of paper.

Bean. Good.

P. Good.

I. Good.

Done. Whew.

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Bean taped her sign to the plum tree. Sh

put her hat on her head. She put the paper

and file folders on the desk. She made he

eyes into slits and looked around Pancak

Court. She watched Jake the Teenager walk

out of his house with a gigantic shopping bag

So long, pal, she muttered. She picked up

the phone and slammed it down. She was

tough. She was ready. She was ready for

her first mystery.

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