Recommended by a slew of teachers at the Scholastic Reading Conference last month, The Strange Case of Origami Yoda leapt to the top of my list of "books I must read this summer." The first in a series (including Darth Paper Strikes Back and The Secret of the Fortune Wookie, which just came out this month), Origami Yoda begins with the central narrator, Tommy, explaining that he is collecting case studies from his fellow 6th graders in an attempt to understand a mystery: how Dwight, the class weird-o, can somehow speak great wisdom through the use of an origami finger-puppet shaped like Yoda from Star Wars. The perspective shifts from chapter to chapter as different characters describe their experiences with Origami Yoda.
I really enjoyed this characters in this book, much in the way that I love the voice of Greg in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. Thinking about reading ladders, I think this might be a step up in complexity from that series since the perspective changes from chapter to chapter.
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