Lone Bean

I have a flower name . . . but it is long and hard to spell and terrible. I''ll never tell anyone what it is. Mom and Dad sometimes call me by my real name when I''m in big trouble, but otherwise I''m just called Bean.

Bean Gibson is so excited about the first day of third grade, not even her m-e-a-n mean older sisters, Rose and Gardenia, can bring her down.

But Bean''s year gets off to a bad start—...