Annie Barrows Books in Order

In this playful picture book, a child compares humans to tin cans, excavators, mushrooms, and even hyenas, asking what we are and are not like. The silly examples lead to a simple idea, that people are far more like one another than anything else on Earth.

Iggy Frangi is thrilled when a chance discovery on the sidewalk turns into real money and a burst of neighborhood fame. Soon, though, adults are angry, rules shift midstream, and Iggy has to work out what fairness looks like when nobody spelled it out.

After hearing about a nearby break in, Iggy designs an elaborate trap to protect his Halloween candy and his family’s valuables. His heroic plan leaves a neighbor boy and father bruised, and Iggy has to defend his intentions while everyone questions his judgment.

A school career fair introduces Ivy and Bean to a treasure hunter who uses a metal detector, inspiring the second graders to dig for riches of their own. As classmates uncover coins and curiosities, the pair must rethink what truly counts as treasure.

This series opener looks back at three of Iggy Frangi’s worst decisions, from a dare that sends a friend off a roof to a classroom stunt that hurts his teacher. Through it all, Iggy slowly learns that some kinds of funny are not worth the fallout.

Trying to be on his best behavior, Iggy still manages to stretch clear tape across a street, accidentally knock down a teacher with a rogue basketball, and crash spectacularly on his bike. Every good intention turns inside out, but Iggy is not done trying.

John Marco notices everything, from tiny bugs to a fat orange cat and, most of all, a tree that is slowly, definitely falling down. The people around him are too busy to listen, until the dramatic moment that proves small kids often see the biggest things.

When a classmate calls Ivy spoiled for being an only child, her feelings are badly bruised. She and Bean try out various ways to become unspoiled, from giving away favorite things to attempting to get a baby sister, with predictably chaotic results.

Fifteen year old best friends Charlotte and Frankie are sure nothing interesting ever happens in their quiet town. When Charlotte decides to document their supposedly boring sophomore year, the story fills up with family drama, friendship shifts, crushes, and the messy work of growing up.

In the summer of 1938, a senator’s daughter, Layla Beck, is sent to the West Virginia town of Macedonia to write its official history for the Federal Writers’ Project. Boarding with the Romeyn family, she and twelve year old Willa uncover long buried secrets about the town and themselves.

Now officially twins, Miri and Molly Gill still remember the separate lives they led before magic rewrote their family. When new portals open in their old house, the girls are swept back to 1918 and the Civil War, where saving relatives means risking the future they love.

After watching an old detective movie, Bean decides Pancake Court needs a private investigator. With Ivy as her partner, she hunts for mysteries big enough to solve, from odd noises to a mysterious yellow rope that appears overnight and winds around the neighborhood.

During spring break, Bean’s older sister heads to a special girls’ camp, and Bean feels left behind. She and Ivy create their own Camp Flaming Arrow in the park, complete with homemade crafts, loud tap dancing, zombie first aid, and a crowd of eager campers.

Everyone at school has fancy cheese in red wax except Ivy and Bean, who cannot afford it. To earn money they start a neighborhood newspaper, snooping for stories and learning the hard way what happens when private lives become headline news.

A school science fair about fighting global warming sends Ivy and Bean searching for a project that really helps the planet. Their failed experiments with ice cubes, trampolines, and pretending to be weak finally lead to a simple plan that gets grown ups’ attention.

After reading a dramatic ballet story, Ivy and Bean beg for dance lessons, imagining swirling capes and dangerous moves. Real class turns out to be slow exercises and a recital where they must perform as squids, so the girls scheme to avoid the stage.

Just after World War II, London writer Juliet Ashton begins exchanging letters with a group of readers on the island of Guernsey. Their stories of occupation, friendship, and a strange book club draw her to the island and quietly change her life.

Bean is horrified when her bossy older sister Nancy is put in charge as her babysitter for the afternoon. With Ivy’s help, she hatches a plan to prove Nancy is terrible at the job, leading to attic escapades and sibling payback.

Ivy decides to become so pure of heart that birds and animals will flock to her, while Bean volunteers to be as bad as possible so Ivy can practice reforming her. Their experiment in good deeds and mischief quickly slips beyond their control.

Middle child Miri feels invisible between two sets of twins in her noisy family. After a shimmering bit of glass sends her back to 1935, she meets Molly, a mistreated girl who could have been her twin, and must find a way to change both their lives.

Desperate to break a world record, Bean latches onto Ivy’s new obsession with fossils and dinosaurs. Their plan to dig up an amazing skeleton in the neighborhood turns into a messy, muddy project that teaches them more about patience than fame.

Ivy invents a ghost in the school bathroom to avoid doing cartwheels in gym, and soon the whole second grade is terrified of the misty stall. To fix the trouble she caused, Ivy and Bean stage an over the top ghost banishing ceremony.

When Bean’s prank on her older sister goes wrong, she ends up hiding with Ivy, the quiet new neighbor who is secretly studying to be a witch. One wild afternoon of magic, worms, and mischief turns two unlikely girls into best friends.