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MORE THAN 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD!
written by annie barrows+ illustrated by sophie blacka
TAKE
THE
CASE
10
* 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.
PZ7.B27576Iys 2013813.6dc23
2012046876
Manufactured in China.
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
big, serious letters.
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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.