Angleberger, Tom

Fuzzy, by Tom Angleberger
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Fuzzy, by Tom Angleberger

ByKathy Maxwell

Maxine Zelaster (aka Max) attends seventh grade at Vanguard One Middle School.  Students at Vanguard must pass weekly tests in each subject as a mandate of the Federal School Board’s Constant UpGrade program.  They must also follow a very strict conduct code or incur discipline tags (dtags) and citizenship infractions which decrease their cumulative scores. …

Origami Yoda series, by Tom Angleberger
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Origami Yoda series, by Tom Angleberger

ByKathy Maxwell

In Tom Angleberger’s series, Origami Yoda, the force arrives at McQuarrie Middle School and begins the battle against the dark side of social ineptitude and mandated state testing. If you can’t believe that paper folded into famous Star Wars characters can start a resistance movement against middle school injustices, think again.  Read the series and…