For Your Reluctant Middle School Reader!
Now being released in paperback, The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger has become a an underground favorite of middle school guys since its release last year. It has just the right mix of middle school fear about asking girls to dance, fitting in, and leaving your childhood fantasy world behind. Our hero Tom is trying to figure out if the seemingly wise prognostications of the dweeb Dwight’s origami Yoda finger puppet are in fact coming from Dwight or are emanating from some magical Force, one that is kindly trying to help Tom navigate successfully the dangers and pitfalls of his middle school life. We hear the various testimonies he has collected about Origami Yoda from his friends, told in their own spot-on voices. The text is accompanied by cartoons drawn by another friend, Kellen, that illustrate and make sly comment on each of the stories. What Tom discovers in the end is that that there may be more to the weird loser Dwight than anyone thought, that as so often seems to happen in this time of rapid changes and sudden reversals in the life of kids, the dipwad turns out to have been more mature and wise than anyone thought, and a better friend too than any Force beyond the stars. 
The book even contains instructions for folding your own Origami Yoda! Plus, the sequel, Darth Paper Strikes Back is coming August 23rd!
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