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Jake Murphy - The Karate Choke
Paperback
Early ReadersSports & Recreation
Publisher Price: $24.99
ISBN13: 9781999232238
Publisher: Tki Productions, Inc.
Published: Sep 3 2025
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
If your child enjoyed Holes, Hatchet, or Restart, they'll love The Karate Choke. An intermediate chapter book for preteen boys ages 8-12!
Anxiety stinks, especially when you're the smartest kid in the school.
Jake Murphy is known as 'The Brain' at Central Elementary School, but even he can't outsmart the anxiety that makes him choke under pressure. During a presentation in front of his classmates, Jake's anxiety takes over and he completely chokes. He gets relentlessly bullied by mean classmates and thinks his life couldn't possibly get any worse.
He's wrong... In an effort to help him 'build character, ' Jake's parents sign him up for karate lessons. Now, Jake must learn how to deal with his anxiety and figure out how to survive karate class.
Great for fans of:
- Cobrai Kai
- The Karate Kid
- Way of the Warrior Kid
- Max Crumbly
- Max and the MidKnights
Shelve with:
- Middle grade fiction
- Chapter books for boys 8-12 years old
- Intermediate chapter books
- Books that deal with anxiety
- Books about karate
- Books about kindness
- Martial Arts books
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