Dwight is a sixth-grader at McQuarrie Middle School, and even
as kids go he’s far from normal. As one
of his most recent quirks he’s taken to carrying around a folded paper finger
puppet of the great Jedi master, then offering his classmates sage advice
through his best Yoda impersonation.
After the oracle’s wisdom pays off for a number of students, some kids
begin to believe that Origami Yoda actually does have some kind of mystical
connection to the Force. As a fellow
student starts a case log to document the chain of strange events, Origami Yoda
is quickly put to his most challenging test…
One of my favorite parts of this book, aside from the
hilarious story I mean, is the fact that it’s just so believably real. Even though I’m long out of middle school, I know
how easily boys of this age could become obsessed with such a simple
phenomenon. If a paper finger puppet
could inspire so much hilarity, it would seem that the amount of story ideas
found in any middle-school lunchroom is simply endless (much like the galaxies
of Star Wars themselves!)
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