SuitabookKarate Kick
Stephanie True Peters
- Reading
- Read together or check in after the friendship conflict, giving your child room to say which moments felt fair, difficult or surprising.
- Themes
- Competition and friendship: Cole is torn between preparing for a belt test and creating a kata for a contest; his friends try to help, and his actions may damage their friendship. The competing karate commitments put Cole under pressure, while his friends’ efforts to help bring friendship into the story.
- Worth knowing
- The plot includes trouble with local teenagers and conflict with Cole’s best friends; bullying is also named as a theme.