Tuesday, September 8, 2020

The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger Reviewed by Owen Lam


 One day Dwight comes to school with a origami Yoda. This Yoda is special because it can talk and answer questions. Dwight shows it to Tommy, Kellan and Harvey. 

Harvey thinks it’s fake and that it’s just one of Dwights jokes. But Tommy and Kellan believes the magic is real. One day, when Kellan was in the washroom, he accidentally splashes some water onto his pants.  Now it looks like he had peed himself. Embarrassed and worried about what the other kids might think or say, Kellen ask Yoda for advice. Yoda tells him splash more water all over his pants so that it just looked like he had wet pants. It worked and nobody laughed at him, just confused about why his pants are all wet. A few days later, Tommy was in class and accidentally knocked over his teachers’ precious head statue. Worried about getting into trouble, he asks Yoda for advice.  Yoda told him to make his teacher a new one out of Play Doh and give it to him. It worked! The teacher was not mad and loved the new statue! 

Yoda was now very popular because he always had good advice! Now, there is a girl that Tommy likes. Maybe Yoda can provide some good advice for him? How will things turn out for him? .....

The SMUS middle school pillar that best describes Yoda is Honesty. Yoda is always telling the truth when asked a question, because it is morally the right thing to do. If he didn't tell the truth, things may go bad. 

A book that I would recommend that is similar to this one is The Secret of the Fortune Wookie by Tom Angleberger. The main character Fortune Wookie is very much like Yoda in that they always speak the truth.

If you like weird and funny stories, this is the book for you.

I give The Strange Case of Origami Yoda a 5-star rating.


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