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Kid Confident: Middle Grade Shelf Help

This series skillfully guides middle schoolers through those tricky years between elementary and high school with a supporting voice of a trusted older sibling or a favourite aunt, stealthily offering life lessons and evidence-based coping skills while authentically capturing the middle school experience. Each book offers what kids need to have fun with it all and navigate middle school with confidence, humor, perspective, and feel our mad respect for being the amazing humans they already are. Loaded with real-life inspired stories, self-reflection questions, writing prompts, and quizzes, the lively and engaging instructional text is supported by fun, cartoon-strip-like graphic novel pages.

Kids' Guide to Government, The (Searchlight Books™)

Young readers explore how the United States government works and how they can be involved. Each title encourages critical thinking skills and deeper comprehension of this accessible text. Take a tour of each branch of government and then discover how media impacts government and elections.

Kids in the Kitchen

What3s your kids3 favorite food? Teach them how to cook it themselves with Kids in the Kitchen, designed for upper-elementary and middle-school students. Simple recipes let them wow family and friends and will inspire them to make their own snacks and meals. Using simple ingredients and step-by-step instructions, supplemented with nutrition and food history tidbits and cooking tips, these cookbooks will delight young foodies.

Kid-Zilla

When the Earth is invaded by extra-mean extraterrestrials and ginormous monsters, Zoe and her kid brother Pablo think things can3t get any crazier. But then their school gets infiltrated by aliens and Pablo gets turned into a massive monster himself!sThis funny, action-packed, and completely off-the-wall comic story will delight fans of Dog Man and Bunny Versus Monkey. Parents and kids alike will thrill to the anarchic humor and fast-paced storytelling in this big-hearted tale of sibling friendship and triumph over adversity.s

Kilala Princess (Graphic Novels)

This series combines the magic of Disney with the fantasy of Shojo Manga as Kilala undertakes a quest to save her friend and gain the power of the Disney Princesses. Graphic Novels is an imprint of Spotlight, a division of ABDO.

Killer Critter Competition (Roar! Books)

The world is full of dangerous creatures with deadly bites, vicious stings, and terrifying toxins. Explore some of nature3s most fearsome animals through stunning images and lively text written at a 3rd and 4th grade reading level with a broad appeal for readers in grades 6 and 7. Fun score cards rank each animal3s lethal stats to reveal the deadliest creature in the killer critter competition. This hi-lo adventure is sure to be a roaring good time!s

Kindness & Empathy

King Calm: Mindful Gorilla in the City

Marvin isn't like other gorillas. He doesn't stomp his feet, and he never ever pounds his chest with a thump thump roar. Marvin is mindful. He's focused. He's calm . . . and he's about to teach his grandpa to be a king of calm, too! Included is a Reader's Note loaded with information about living mindfully and ways to become more calm, focused, and tuned in to the great big world around you.

King Coyote

When a Black boy is banished to predominantly white Vermont to live with his relatives while his parents divorce, he forges a deep bond with a coyote that seems as alone and misunderstood as he feels. To protect the coyote from trappers, he embarks on a life-changing adventure that reshapes everything he knows about belonging and family.

Kisses Are Invisible

In a world that is both full of wonder and sometimes-scary, Theo learns that the things we can most count on in life are often invisible. At his mother's prompting, Theo goes on a search for all the invisibles he can find: Wind! Music! Warmth! Until he can't find another one anywhere. But as Mom tucks him in with snuggles and kisses, he identifies a couple more--including the most important invisible of all. A comforting, tender tale that shows young readers that the love of family is something to count on.