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A review by ashleysbooknook
Ivy + Bean and the Ghost That Had to Go by Annie Barrows
1.0
Meh. There was nothing good in these characters. I don't see any need to read a book like this. The sibling relationships are terrible. The friends are good and in the end of this story, there was a short line or two about the girls saying something nice to a boy they had a feud with before. So they decided to be nice, but that was about all there was as far as good goes. I definitely won't be sharing this series with Eve.
As for this specific story- the girls convinced the whole second grade that the bathroom was haunted. I thought for sure an adult would show them that the vapor that they were seeing was something innocent, but their teacher told them never to talk about it again and another teacher kept punishing them. Come to think of it, all the adults were terrible. I didn't notice this trend until someone pointed it out. Why do adults have to be so negative in books? Beans mom was "too lazy" to leave the house and come get her from Ivy's house. Ivy's mom wasn't present. Like I said, the teachers were mean and bad. Ugh. And then, back to the haunting thing, the girls make a potion and do a dance/chant to expel the ghost. The whole thing is creepy and ends with a toilet over flowing in an attempt to hide the gifts they brought for the ghost from the mean teacher. So I guess everyone thinks that the bathroom is no longer haunted? I guess. So yeah, not just an iffy series on general, but a spooky book specifically!
As for this specific story- the girls convinced the whole second grade that the bathroom was haunted. I thought for sure an adult would show them that the vapor that they were seeing was something innocent, but their teacher told them never to talk about it again and another teacher kept punishing them. Come to think of it, all the adults were terrible. I didn't notice this trend until someone pointed it out. Why do adults have to be so negative in books? Beans mom was "too lazy" to leave the house and come get her from Ivy's house. Ivy's mom wasn't present. Like I said, the teachers were mean and bad. Ugh. And then, back to the haunting thing, the girls make a potion and do a dance/chant to expel the ghost. The whole thing is creepy and ends with a toilet over flowing in an attempt to hide the gifts they brought for the ghost from the mean teacher. So I guess everyone thinks that the bathroom is no longer haunted? I guess. So yeah, not just an iffy series on general, but a spooky book specifically!