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!
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