her feet Then she arched over backward She flung her arms over her head and made a perfect backbend backbend She looked like a turned-over pink teacup Then she rose back up boing like a doll with elastic in its legs Wow said Ivy Bean jumped up She just had to do twelve cartwheels Stand back she yelled Wait said Zuzu What about Ivy Aren’t you going to do a cartwheel cartwheel Ivy
I’m guarding the jackets said Ivy But Ivy this is the Gymnastics Club said Zuzu You can’t just guard jackets Why not Ivy wondered We’ll teach you how to do it if you don’t know said Emma She knows said Bean She can do a cartwheel I’ve seen her Ivy looked at Bean in surprise Why was she saying that Ivy had never done a cartwheel in her life Slowly Ivy put her sandwich down next to Emma’s jacket There’s just
one little problem she began Hey Leo yelled Bean suddenly You’d better watch out If I get hit with that ball there’s going to be trouble Leo was the leader of the soccer kids at Emerson School Before there was a Gymnastics Club the soccer kids had the whole field to themselves during lunch recess When Bean and Emma and Zuzu and Ivy started the Gymnastics Club they kept getting hit with soccer balls One day Bean got clobbered in the stomach and she declared war on the soccer kids She came to school 12
with a bag of ripe plums and chased Leo down When she caught him she sat on him and rubbed plums into his hair Rose the Yard Duty had been really mad She told Leo and Bean that they had to work it out or she would kick them all off the field 13
