Thursday, July 26, 2012

Darth Paper Strikes Back

Love this book you will. 2012 Bluebonnet Award winner Tom Angleberger does not disappoint with Darth Paper Strikes Back. All the characters are back, only Harvey has decided to challenge Origami Yoda's powers with his creation, Darth Paper.

This sets off a chain of events with Dwight on the verge of a school transfer to a campus for kids with discipline issues. The kids (well, most of them) prepare a case file to present to the School Board in the hope of getting them to reconsider. In the end, we see why O.Y. gets the props that he does.

This book has the same balance of storytelling, humorous tone, sarcasm, and middle-school reality that I loved in Origami Yoda. If you have every read SOS Files, the case files work along those lines as stand alone essays so this could be a good launching point for writing from personal experience.

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