In spring 2010, Amulet Books published Tom Angleberger’s The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, introducing Dwight, a seemingly clueless sixth grader who communicates with peers through the prescient voice ...

PARMA, MI – He makes being the weirdest, nerdiest kid in school seem pretty cool. That's probably because the force is with Tom Angleberger. Yes, that force from Star Wars. But not in the way you ...

Tommy, Dwight, and the rest of their friends from The Strange Case of Origami Yoda are back, and so is Dwight's wise, eponymous finger puppet, Origami Yoda, who has also transitioned to seventh grade.

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You may not think you know how to create Origami Yoda. But the Force will be with you and so will Origami Yoda series creator Tom Angleberger on April 12 at the Dallas Museum of Art. The program winds ...

Growing up in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, author Tom Angleberger says he was a “nerdy kid.” “I was a very awkward kid, very lonely, stuck way out in the country,” Angleberger said in a recent ...

Tom Angleberger is the author and illustrator of the bestselling Origami Yoda series of books for middle-grade kids. In the books, Dwight is an awkward sixth-grader who uses a Yoda finger puppet to ...

Seventh grade at McQuarrie Middle School starts well for "five minutes" but then problems descend like imperial stormtroopers. Exploding pizza bagels! Body odor! Mutant hot dogs! Students turn for ...

Meet Tom Angleberger you must. And brush up on your Star Wars beforehand. Because after you see the author of The Strange Case of Origami Yoda on Aug. 23 at Barnes & Noble in Frisco you, too, may want ...