When Casper gets 400 dollars from his aunt for his birthday, he goes with his friend Lenny to Sven’s Fair Price Store to buy the Heidelberg Handlebar Number Seven (a mustache that can lead to the fate of the country), and Chauncey’s to buy a-man-about-town suit for the upcoming presidential election. That same night, a bank was robbed by a short man wearing a man-about-town suit that has a mustache. Then, the night after that, the Federal Gold Reserve gets robbed by the same man! Who’s the hoodl More...

Fake Mustache was an Ok Book. I only read it because it is from the same author of the Origami Yoda series.
this book is about two boys named Lenny and Casper, and they go to svens fair price store. and Casper saved up $400 and he bought a fake mustache, the most expensive one to. he also went to a rich store and bought a suit.
I guess this was a disguise for something. But, he robbed banks, and became famous for being a billionaire. they don't know it was him because Casper said Lenny did all th More...

This nonstop fountain of funny lines, kooky characters, and over-the-top plot had me laughing so much people around me kept asking what was so funny. Lenny Jr. goes to buy a special mustache his best friend Casper desperately wants; The Heidelberg Handlebar #7. When Casper dons the mustache he finds that he has specials powers and can talk anyone into whatever he wants. He quickly takes over the world and it is up to Lenny to stop him with the help of television star Jodie O'Rodeo. They race thr More...

Friends Lenny and Casper get into their fair share of trouble in the town of Hairsprinkle, but when Casper uses his money to buy a nice suit and Heidelberg Handlebar Number Seven mustache and use this get up to rob the local bank, Lenny has to stop him, especially when Casper frames Lenny for the robbery. The power of the mustache is soon so great Casper has gathered a fortune large enough for him to buy the company that produced the mustache (as well as other fun novelty gimmicks) and to run fo More...

You know from the cover, the subtitle (or, how Jodie O'Rodeo and her wonder horse (and some nerdy kid) saved the U.S. presidential election from a mad genius criminal mastermind), the end pages and the title page that this book will make you snicker - at least.

Lenny Junior (the nerdy kid) begins the his story with a warning. "Don't ever buy a fake mustache as Sven's Fair Price Store." He goes on to explain that is an awesome place for fake noses or thumbs or fake laughter machines, but not must More...

Maybe I was just in a bad mood when I read this title, but it didn't thrill me nearly as much as The Strange Case of Origami Yoda or Darth Paper Strikes Back. After his best friend Casper Bengue purchases a mustache with certain powers, Lenny Flem suddenly finds the two of them at odds. Casper, it seems, has plans to take over first the costume prop store and then the nation's presidency. Once Lennie realizes that his seventh grade friend is a bank robber, he knows he must stop him even as the m More...

Yesterday a package of ARCs from Abrams arrived at my home, among them Tom Angleberger's forthcomingFake Mustache and, needing a light read before bed, I decided to give it a try. Next thing I knew a couple of hours had passed and I'd gulped down the whole delightful confection. It isn't out till April so I hope this isn't a dreadful tease, but I thought Origami Yoda fans as well as others looking for good and funny middle grade books might like to know what they have in store.

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First, let me say I love Tom Angleberger's Origami Yoda books. The two written thus far are so good that I continue to recommend them to people today.

Second, let me say that Fake Mustache is not an Origami Yoda book. Not even close.

The Origami Yoda books are written from multiple perspectives and feature a sympathetic main character who is trying to figure out whether a perplexing friend is psychic or channeling a fictitious movie character or just plain crazy. The characters are unique but hav More...

Angleberger, T. (2012). Fake Mustache. New York: Abrams.

196 pages.


Looking at this book's endpages, for the first time ever, I find myself wishing I could grow a mustache. I suppose this is the purpose of having a fake one. Although, I wouldn't pay 129.99 for a handlebar mustache...or any mustache.


Appetizer: Seventh grader Leny Flem Jr. saved the world. Fake Mustache is the story of how that happened. It began with Casper's birthday and him receiving money from his Grandma. He and Leny go to Sven More...

7th grader, Casper borrows money from his friend Lenny and he buys the number one fake mustache Heidelberg Handlebar #7. It is much more than a costume prop, it has hypnotic powers. Casper convinces people with his fake mustache to elect him for governor which they do, the next step.. President! His friend Lenny, who knows it is a fake mustache isn’t swayed by the mustache power. Lenny tries to stop Casper. Everyone is convinced that Lenny is the evil one as Casper convinces them of it, and they More...

Tom Angleberger, the award-winning author of the popular Origami Yoda series, does not disappoint in Fake Mustache. His humorous, fast-paced storytelling and casual writing style are sure to appeal to the middle-grade reader.

Lenny Flem Jr. is just an average, slightly nerdy, 7th grade boy. He spends his days at school and his evenings in front of the TV watching old reruns of, once popular, pre-teen sensation Jodie O’Rodeo starring in The Jodie O’Rodeo Showdeo. It isn’t until Lenny’s best friend More...

Fake Mustache is about using a fake mustache to rule the country. One day, a boy named Lenny Flem Jr. goes downtown with his friend Casper to buy a man-about-town suit and a fake mustache. Casper used the suit and the mustache to hypnotize a group of people to help him rob banks and trick people that he didn't steal the money. Later on, Casper turns into "Fako-Mustacho" to frame Lenny Flem Jr. Lenny then disguises himself as Jodie O'Rodeo, teen cowgirl queen, so he wouldn't be captured.

The reas More...

One day, Casper borrows $10 from his best friend, Lenny, to purchase the incredibly realistic Heidelberg Handlebar Number Seven fake mustache...the next day, Lenny awakens to news stories of a mysterious short man sporting a handlebar mustache robbing the bank. Lenny can't believe that no one notices that Fako Mustacho is actually his former best friend, Casper, wearing a fake mustache. Is the mustache capable of brainwashing? When Fako Mustacho enters the world of politics on a quest for world- More...

I said it about Laini Taylor. I said it about Jeff Kinney. Heck, I even said it about J.K. Rowling and now, my friends, I’m saying it about Tom Angleberger: I was into him before it was cool. Seriously, a show of hands, how many of you out there can say that you read his first middle grade novel The Qwikpick Adventure Society written under the pen name of Sam Riddleberger? See, that’s what I though. I did and it was hilarious, thank you very much. The kind of thing you read and love and wish mor More...

How can Casper Bengue, a seventh grader from small town Hairsprinkle, rob a bank, buy one of the largest novelty companies, then become President of the United States? By owning the Heidelberg Handlebar Number Seven of course! A mustache so amazing that it hypnotizes everyone that sees it!

Who can stop this newly minted evil henchman? Only the same person that lent Casper the money to buy the fake mustache in the first place, Lenny Flem Jr.! But when Lenny tries to turn Casper in to the authoriti More...

If you've seen the Jim Carrey movie The Mask, this book is very similar, and every bit as funny and zany as readers would expect from the author of the Origami Yoda series. Friends Lenny and Casper become "frenemies" when Casper buys a fake mustache made from the real mustache hairs of a bad guy. Casper becomes infused with the bad guy's motives and begins robbing banks and businesses all with the master plan to take over the world (well at least the United States when he sets his sights on beco More...

Review written with my 4th and 5th graders:

Jodie O"Rodeo (a purple haired cowgirl), a horse named Soymilk, a sticky hand that saves the day and a hypnotizing mustache from an evil sort of French guy. A 13 year old kid with a fake mustache that can hypnotize school librarians into robbing banks. Fake mustaches are more powerful than the average mind might think. This story is hilarious, funny, disturbing, unusual, extra detailed and disgusting.

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I recently finished the book Fake Mustache by Tom Angleberger. This book is about a boy (named Casper) who buys a very expensive fake mustache and changes his identity on a quest to take over the world. Lenny Flem junior must go under cover and team up with some amazing friends including Jodie O Rodeo and her wonder horse. Lenny also has plenty of gags and gadgets from the Hairsprinkle Novelty Company. He has an amazing adventure full of laughs and suspence as he tries to take down the evil Casp More...

Tom Angleberger is the author of the wildly popular "The Strange Case of the Origami Yoda" and "Darth Paper Strikes Back", neither of which I read. But I was curious about this guy's writing, so I dived in. This book is hilarious and will appeal to boys and girls alike. The premise is a novelty company sells a 12 year old boy a very expensive, and very possessed, mustache. He becomes an instant master criminal, robbing banks and planning world domination. His best friend teams up with a former c More...

Having read the Origami Yoda books and Horton Halfpott, I felt that this was one of the weaker books that Tom Angleberger has written. Don't get me wrong, I did like the book. The illustrations were well placed, I liked how the book was divided into three parts and some of the humorous elements (including the emails and text messages) were quite witty as usual. But I felt that the book was a little too fast paced. A lot of the time something happened, the characters reacted and then the story mo More...

I will say I'm a little biased because I just love Tom Angleberger, but this book was hysterical! I recommended our Guys Read group uses this as one of the books next year and we can give all of them sticky hands and fake mustaches to take over the world! Note that this is not a morality tale--the "bad guy" is just a mischievous kid who doesn't get into trouble at all at the end.

This is the kind of surreal world that the characters of A Series of Unfortunate Events or Molly Moon live in--parents More...

The Heidelberg Handlebar #7 mustache is ready to take over the world. Be ready to laugh, because this book is 100% ridiculous.

From the author that brought us Origami Yoda comes a hilarious story about how Lenny Flem Jr. is stuck saving the world after his best friend Casper buys an evil mustache. Lenny can’t do it alone and luckily Jodie O’Rodeo is there to help him (along with her darling horse Soymilk.) Lenny and Jodie take turns telling the story so boys and girls will both love this story, More...

This book Fake Mustache by Tom Angleberger is funny and comical yet a book full of adventure and determanition. I liked this book a lot but this Fake Mustache story has not even a 1% chance of happening in real life. Casper and Lenny are 7th grade typical best friends. Until one day when Casper buys an 200$ mustache shaved from a criminal in jail. He has been robbing banks and has become rich but nobodys suspects a thing from him.Because of the mustache he has turend the town into (his fake name More...

Lenny Flem Jr. begins to suspect that something is not quite right with his best friend Casper after Casper purchases a "man about town suit" and a totally believable fake mustache. Suddenly a man matching that description is robbing banks and buying novelty toy companies, but no one believes that a 7th grader could possibly be involved. It is up to Lenny and former child star Jodie O'Rodeo to save the day.

This is a hilarious and totally unbelievable story, but it's exactly what you would expect More...

This tickled me all the way through. I'm just sorry I didn't have time to read straight through. I know that it would be hilarious to read aloud to middle elementary students. There's just lots of silly stuff, like the 'fake' mustache worn magically gives delusions of power that cannot be beat, almost. Here are a few lines to chuckle with. You can feel the flavor: ""Everybody downstairs! We got a werewolf and a rodeo queen on the loose. Search the factory! Cover every exit! Shoot to kill! And s More...

Good fun. The explaination for why Casper embarks on his crime spree is never made explicit, but is very obvious once you realize the true source of the mustashe.

When Lenny's friend, Casper, buys an expensive, one-of-a-kind fake mustache, he changes. Strangers obey him. Banks are robbed. Newscasters blame Lenny. And only Lenny seems to be able to tell that Casper, now known as Fako Mustasho, is the evil genius behind all the crime. But when Lenny meets Jodie O'Rodeo, preteen cowgirl queen, whose More...

This book is laugh-out-loud, crack-a-rib hilarious. A must-read for your young goofball. (Or your grown one, in my case.)

laugh-out-loud funny! Lenny and Caspar are at the local novelty store trying to spend Caspar's birthday money on something expensive and useless. Caspar decides on a deluxe fake mustache and then also purchases a suit and then proceeds to attempt to get elected president of the United States under the pseudonym "Fako Mustacho"! What's going on? And how can Lenny (and his TV star crush-girl, Jodie O'Rodeo) stop Caspar before he takes over the world? I laughed aloud so often that I probably should More...

Lenny lends his friend Casper some money to buy the king of all fake mustaches, the Heidelberg Handlebar Number Seven. Casper also goes to get measured for a suit--a nice suit, but a little ridiculous on a 12-year-old kid. Shortly thereafter, reports hit the streets of a short man-about-town leading a crime wave, with bank robberies galore. The problem is that everyone thinks it's Lenny doing the robberies. So Lenny goes undercover to try to stop Casper. This crazy story moves quickly and has pl More...

Do you think you could be fooled into thinking that a 12-year-old boy with a mustache is an adult? Lenny Flem, Jr. can’t believe it, but his best friend, Casper, is doing just that. It’s not just any mustache. It’s the Heidelberg Handlebar No. 7. This mustache has some sort of peculiar hypnotic quality about it, because everyone is doing everything Casper says, including robbing banks.

Lenny is just an average kid. Well, maybe a little bit nerdier, but mostly average. He realizes he’s the only on More...