# J vs. K

**Author:** Kwame Alexander & Jerry Craft
**Grade range:** Grades 3–5
**Age range:** 8–11
**First published:** 2025
**Page count:** 240
**Genre:** Middle Grade Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780316582681`
**ISBN-10:** `0316582689`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/j-vs-k
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Rival fifth-graders J, a gifted artist who tells stories without words, and K, a writer known as 'The Word Wizard,' both enter their school's Creative Storytelling Competition — and may have to team up with their greatest enemy: each other. Kwame Alexander and Jerry Craft's illustrated grades 3-5 story is a 2026-2027 Sunshine State Young Readers Award (Florida) nominee.

## Themes

- friendship
- school
- humor

## Where this book is assigned

### Sunshine State Young Readers Award

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Florida — [source: Sunshine State Young Readers Award 2026-2027 Master List (Grades 3-5)](https://www.floridamediaed.org/ssyra-3-5.html)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Florida — [source: Sunshine State Young Readers Award 2026-2027 Master List (Grades 3-5)](https://www.floridamediaed.org/ssyra-3-5.html)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Florida — [source: Sunshine State Young Readers Award 2026-2027 Master List (Grades 3-5)](https://www.floridamediaed.org/ssyra-3-5.html)

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