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Kar-Ben For Older Readers

For children making the transition to more challenging books, check out the diversity of titles for older readers from Kar-Ben.

Kid & Kid

A country girl and her floppy-eared baby goat get ready to compete at the county fair. A pair of verbs on each spread highlight the silly antics of the two kids on the farm, and despite a few messes and mishaps along the way, their parallel actions build to a joyful ending at the fair. Useful for teaching beginning readers about homonyms and comparing word concepts, the colourful and expressive art highlights the different meanings of each word.

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.

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.

K-Pop: The Music Sensation Sweeping the Globe

With BTS leading the way, South Korean K-pop has become the worldÎs most popular music. K-Pop: The Music Sensation Sweeping the Globe covers the stars and their music, dance, and fashion from K-pop roots in the 1990s to the international entertainment colossus it is today.

Kwame Votes

Kwame is excited to tell his family who he voted for and why in his school student government election. To his surprise, his family is also getting ready to be part of Election Day. He spends a celebratory afternoon with his family eating and talking about why voting is important before all going together to the polling place. Kwame learns that voting is communication between the government and the people. He understands that because of voting, elected officials can be held accountable, and people can communicate their opinions about how to solve community problems.

La crisis climctica (The Climate Crisis)

Los efectos del cambio climctico se estcn haciendo cada vez mcs visibles y transforman la vida de las personas y los ambientes que las rodean. Esta serie explora las causas y los efectos del cambio climctico en un formato accesible de no ficciun grcfica. The impacts of climate change are becoming more and more visible, transforming people's lives and the environments around them. The Climate Crisis series explores the causes and effects of climate change in an accessible graphic nonfiction format. Through these titles, young readers will learn more about key concepts and major developments within this world-changing topic.

La Journée nationale de la vérité et de la réconciliation  

Les lecteurs sont invités à sauter en canoë pour découvrir ce que sont les pensionnats pour autochtones au Canada et pour en apprendre davantage sur le Jour de la vérité et de la réconciliation. L’autrice Dawn Sii-yaa-ilth-supt Smith est membre de la nation Nuu-chah-nulth et elle a fréquenté l’école de jour du pensionnat pour autochtone de Tsartlip, en Colombie-Britannique. Elle partage avec nous son témoignage et l’importance de la vérité et de la réconciliation au Canada.