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    The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee
    The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee
    The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee
    Audiobook2 hours

    The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee

    Written by Tom Angleberger

    Narrated by Mark Turetsky, Greg Steinbruner, Julia Gibson and

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Award-winning author Tom Angleberger's books have been hailed as ''delightful'' (New York Times). The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee is the third hilarious tale in Angleberger's best-selling Origami Yoda series. Dwight has left McQuarrie Middle School to attend Tippett Academy- and he's taken Origami Yoda with him. (Luckily, the Fortune Wookiee soon arrives at McQuarrie to take Yoda's place.) Meanwhile, Dwight's friends fear that he's becoming too normal. Now they' ve got to remind him that his weirdness is what makes him great.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateAug 7, 2012
    ISBN9781470323714
    The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee
    Author

    Tom Angleberger

    Tom Angleberger ("Rise of the RoboShoes™") began writing his first novel in eighth grade, but never completed it. Since then, he’s been a newspaper reporter and columnist, a juggler, a weed boy, a lawn-mower-part assembler, and a biology research assistant. This bestselling author insists he’s not really all that creative—"I’m more of a puzzle-putter-together."

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    • 5/5
      When Dwight transfers to a private school, Tippet Acdaemy, Sara introduces The Fortune Wookiee to McQuarrie Middle School, who replaces Origami Yoda. Tommy and his friends create a case file to reveal the secret of The Fortune Wookiee.
    • 4/5
      I can't stay away from these kids or their story. Tommy and the gang return the day after Dwight leaves for Tippett Academy. They lament the bored sure to ensue without their friend and the ever-present Origami Yoda. Until Sara, Tommy's girlfriend, arrives with a fortune telling Chewbacca and his translator Han Foldo. Soon the kids at McQuarrie Middle are logging their stories for the case file to validate the Fortune Wookie's use of the force and a little tribute to bring Dwight back from the soul sucking Tippett Academy. Again, a wonderful laugh, real voices, a story about the beauty of individuality and the power of friendship, wrapped up in a chaotic middle school setting.
    • 3/5
      So, thanks to work-related deadlines and I have too many books to read in a short amount of time (why does everything come out in September, why?), I broke my rule about not starting series in the middle. We’ve gotten in the other Origami Yoda books in at work, and I’ve made mental notes to check them out, but I just never gotten around to doing so before we returned them.

      That said, this was a solid read, and one that I was able to plow through pretty quick. I liked the journalistic style, I thought the kids were fun and they all had their own distinct voices (as well as page font, but you could tell who was talking without noticing the change in typesetting). The plot is a little thin, but I’m chalking that more to the fact that I haven’t read the previous two books, and so I don’t know the full story behind Dwight and the Origami Yoda. The message is very much a diatribe against schools cutting the arts and killing kids’ creative in order to focus on testing. (Which isn’t a bad message, but it does have a very anvilicious feel to it.) The only thing I don’t really like with the book overall is that the main characters feel cheated that the person behind the Fortune Wookie was Sarah and that she was dispensing girl advice. I liked the portrayal of nerdy girls in this book, but I don’t like the idea that “Oh, well, her advice is more manipulative than the kind Dwight gives.” It doesn’t outright say it, but that’s what it felt like to me.

      It’s a solid read, and while I’m not entirely with the end, I’m going to go back and read the earlier books, if only to get a better grasp on the plot.