The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee by Tom Angleberger

There's some great subplots here, including, but not limited to: the school cutting all funding for liberal arts in order to 'focus on the basics' and teach to the test the principal banning the use or making of origami in any place in the school except the library and Dwight being turned 'normal' by his horrifyingly cheerful and supportive new school. It turns out he gives pretty great advice!Īlso, Sara makes a little Han Solo origami, which she christens Han Foldo, to get in on the fun. Then he answers in Shyriiwook** and Sara translates for him. First you tell the Wookie what your favorite Star Wars Episode is, and then your favorite character from the movies. Luckily, Dwight has made up a little origami Chewbacca fortune teller to guide the students on their correct path. The kids at school are feeling Dwight's absence keenly. Thank Jabba* I didn't ditch this after the first book! How did I go from being mildly annoyed with this series to laughing out loud while reading it? Once again, I was lucky enough to listen to the audiobook, with its perfect cast of narrators, which proved to be the icing on a most delicious cake. While aimed squarely at the middle-grade and middle-school sets, any adult who doesn’t enjoy The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee just doesn’t remember the rollercoaster emotions of seventh grade. So for the third time, Tommy compiles a collection of case studies to try to make sense of all of these changes, and the result - The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee - is just as charming, touching, and, as Kellen Campbell would phrase it, Jedi-wise as the two previous books, The Strange Case of Origami Yoda and Darth Paper Strikes Back. Can Dwight really be happy with his new persona? He no longer turns to Origami Yoda, says “purple,” or even speaks much at all. Meanwhile, Dwight, who once marched to his own drummer, has become “normal” - alarming his McQuarrie friends, especially his best friends Tommy, Sarah, and sort-of-girlfriend Caroline Broom. The Fortune Wookiee’s advice is nearly as good as Origami Yoda’s, but McQuarrie’s dark-side Harvey is as skeptical as ever of the Force. The Fortune Wookiee can’t speak himself, but his yelps and howls are translated by Hans Foldo, yet another puppet. Adrift without the Jedi wisdom, the seventh-graders turn to the Fortune Wookiee, a substitute Dwight has given his neighbor Sarah Bolt. The thus-far irrepressible Dwight has been expelled from McQuarrie Middle School and is now at Tibbet Academy, leaving Tommy Lomax and the gang behind.

How can you have one of Tom Angleberger’s delightful Origami Yoda books without Dwight Tharp - or especially Origami Yoda? Genius that he is, Angleberger found a way!

The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee by Tom Angleberger