# Karen Kepplewhite is the World's Best Kisser

**Author:** Eve Bunting
**Grade range:** Grades 4–6
**Age range:** 9–11
**First published:** 1983
**Page count:** 87
**Genre:** Humor
**ISBN-13:** `9780899191829`
**ISBN-10:** `0899191827`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/karen-kepplewhite-is-the-worlds-best-kisser
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

I NEVER THOUGHT A BOOK COULD CHANGE MY LIFE! My best friend has nerve. She gave me a hot new book called How to Kiss Like an Expert. Now she wants me to practice on a teddy bear--so I'll be ready for Mark! Mark is the biggest hunk in the entire seventh grade, if you ask me. And he's coming to my thirteenth birthday party! Unfortunately, so is Star--the gorgeous new girl who looks as if she could write a few expert books herself.

## Themes

- birthdays
- kissing
- parties
- birthday parties

## Where this book is assigned

### Nēnē Award (Hawai'i)

- **recommended** · 4th grade · Hawaii — [source: Nēnē Award (Hawai'i) — Hawaii's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 4-6): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winner list verified from the award's published record.](https://www.neneaward.org/winners.html)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Hawaii — [source: Nēnē Award (Hawai'i) — Hawaii's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 4-6): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winner list verified from the award's published record.](https://www.neneaward.org/winners.html)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Hawaii — [source: Nēnē Award (Hawai'i) — Hawaii's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 4-6): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winner list verified from the award's published record.](https://www.neneaward.org/winners.html)

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