Quotes from Annie Barrows

SNEAK PREVIEW OF THE NEXT IVY & BEAN ADVENTURE

Jun Lloyd's been four times, once in the dead of night, and he says there's blood oozing out from under the front door, because Mr. Shank's stabbing everyone—

I don't know what ails Adelaide Addison. Isola says she is a blight because she likes being a blight— it gives her a sense of destiny.

Five million girls in pink Girl Power 4-Ever shirts were squirming around outside the Youth Center, waiting for camp to begin. They hugged each other and squealed. They showed each other their cell phones. They sang. They danced. They giggled. They were all bouncy and happy and busy.

THE GHOST OF PANCAKE COURT Bean

suspiciously.

Soon there were grown-ups scattered all across the grass. In the dark, they looked like laundry. "Now," said Bean in a loud voice. "Look up into the sky. Smell how nice the grass is. Listen to the trees. And just rest. Don't talk. Don't do anything. And don't worry. You're totally safe.

I learned...that loyalty does not mean stepping into line but falling out of it for the people we love.

Bean looked up into the sky. What if someone was watching her through a giant magnifying glass and thinking the same thing she was? What if she was as small as an ant compared to that someone? And what if that someone was an ant compared to the next world after that? Wow. Bean waved at the sky. Hi out there, she thought.

But after a while, Miri noticed that none of the smiling people ever looked at her. Their eyes moved from Ray and Robbie on one side to Nell and Nora on the other, slipping right over Miri in the middle.

You're right, Jottie, but what good is it? Rightness is nothing. You can't live on it. You might as well eat ashes." I glanced at Father, his bloodshot eyes and the stain on his pants. I loved him so. Once more, I tired to explain. "This is all we can do; it's all we're allowed. We can't go back. The only thing time leaves for us to decide" -- I picked up Father's hand and held it tight-- "is whether or not we're going to hate each other.

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Who thought of money?

Grown-ups were so weird.

want to, you say it's not a good idea." She shook her head. Grown-

good—forever," said Ivy. She had come up behind Crummy Matt, and now she stood next to Bean. "She'll never do

Sammy La Barba

I'm going to throw up

break your heart

There has to be a way," she said, determinedly. "Nothing is impossible." Bean stared at her. "It's impossible for us to be good at ballet." "Well, that, sure," said Ivy. "But it's not impossible for us to break our arms.

Ivy had been practicing to become a witch for a long time. She was going to be one when she grew up

That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you onto another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive—all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.

If I could have anything I wanted, I would choose story without end, and it seems I have lots of company in that.