This story portrays one boy's struggle to achieve his goal of earning a karate belt. Cam fails to break the board multiple times. Encouraged by his friends, his persistence finally pays off, with him breaking the board successfully. This story also humorously highlights friendship and camaraderie, exemplified in Jack's unconventional hand-shake prank, leaving everybody with sticky hands.
This story contains approximately 463 words. The potentially challenging words for early readers may include "board," "easily," "studio," "students," "yesterday," "upset," "split," "proud," "uniform," "jelly," "jokester," "grabbed," "smiled." Also, the concept of play on words, as in the phrases "in a jam," referring to both a difficult situation and the actual peanut butter and jelly on hands or uniform, might need explaining.