Some of the stuff in the book is a little beyond my third-grader: the school dances and boy-girl relationships are represented pretty accurately and it’s tame, but it’s stuff that she isn’t really dealing with yet. So what’s the deal? Tommy has to make a decision whether to follow Origami Yoda’s advice, and it’s a big deal that could lead to something more than friendship or total humiliation in front of all his friends. And there’s the question of Dwight himself - even though he’s the one doing the voices for the puppet, he doesn’t seem to be nearly as wise as Yoda. All of them asked Origami Yoda for advice, and he came through each time.īut then there’s the unsatisfactory answers, the ones that don’t seem to make sense.
(Plus there are illustrations from another kid, Kellen.) There’s the kid who’s been branded the “Cheeto Hog” and wants a way to lose the nickname a kid who keeps striking out in baseball and can’t stop bursting into angry tears the girl who accidentally broke her teacher’s Shakespeare bust. Each story gets a comment from Tommy, and a comment from Harvey, the skeptic.
So Tommy takes it upon himself to compile a case file, asking various students to contribute their stories about Origami Yoda and the advice they got from him. But then he shows up with this paper Yoda finger puppet and starts giving people advice and answering questions in his bad Yoda impression voice, and most of his advice turns out to be pretty good. Really, picture Napoleon Dynamite in middle school and you’ll have a pretty good idea: he’s awkward, rude, socially inept, and nobody really understands him. The story is set at McQuarrie Middle School, where a sixth-grader named Tommy is trying to answer the question: is Origami Yoda real? Origami Yoda is the creation of Dwight, a classmate who is a bit on the weird side. My daughter actually found this (and Darth Paper) at her school library after we read Fake Mustache because she knew it was the same author.
I’d heard of Origami Yoda and had seen little drawings and images of folded-paper Yodas around, but for whatever reason I hadn’t ever read the book. My 8-year-old daughter and I have read all three together and had a lot of laughs, so I thought I’d tell you a bit about the books. Coming up in May, Angleberger has a new book out that’s still set in middle school but goes off in an entirely different direction: Fake Mustache. You may have heard of the first two: The Strange Case of Origami Yoda and its sequel Darth Paper Strikes Back were published in 20.
Tom Angleberger, a former GeekDad contributor, has a couple of books for middle schoolers that are quite funny and work in a lot of fun geeky references.
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