"An important and alarming new book." --New York TimesThe way we teach reading is not working, and it cannot continue. We have largely abandoned phones-based reading instruction, despite research that
Klutzy Marvin falls for the new girl in his class, a karate whiz named Tokiko, but when he enters a karate contest to get some badly needed money, he ends up competing against his crush.
Taunted by bullies at school, dorky 8-year-old Marvin has a lot to prove, but in an attempt to be cool and accepted, he starts to take karate lessons to become a super-powered karate wiz. Original.