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The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
By (Author) Tom Angleberger
Abrams
Abrams
22nd June 2011
United States
Children
Fiction
813.6
Short-listed for South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award (Children's) 2012
Paperback
160
Width 139mm, Height 209mm, Spine 11mm
180g
In this funny, uncannily wise portrait of the dynamics of a sixth-grade class and of the greatness that sometimes comes in unlikely packages, Dwight, a loser, talks to his classmates via an origami finger puppet of Yoda. If that werent strange enough, the puppet is uncannily wise and prescient. Origami Yoda predicts the date of a pop quiz, guesses who stole the classroom Shakespeare bust, and saves a classmate from popularity-crushing embarrassment with some well-timed advice. Dwights classmate Tommy wonders how Yoda can be so smart when Dwight himself is so clueless. With contributions from his puzzled classmates, he assembles the case file that forms this novel. [MELISSA: EXCERPT OF NOVEL IS IN MY ED FOLDER, UNDER MARKETING]