This fun-to-read fiction book companion contains guided reading comprehension work that is, also, usable in reading workshops, rotations, or small groups. Plus, there are appropriate literacy skills to go along with Annie Barrows' fluency-leveled novel study, Ivy and Bean. In this book study there are comprehension questions over each chapter, vocabulary words and teacher-prompts to interact with them, skill work on alphabetizing, spelling work, cause and effect, suffix work, homonyms, and ideas