Star Wars: Jedi Academy
Roan Novachez has been planning his whole life to attend Pilot Academy Middle School like his older brother. The rejection letter wrecks him, and then a second letter shows up: Jedi Academy on Coruscant has accepted him, late, with Yoda as headmaster. Roan keeps a journal of his first year, complete with comic strips, hallway gossip, school newspaper clippings, and report cards, as he tries to make friends, survive lightsaber class, and figure out whether the rival Cyrus is really turning to the dark side. Jeffrey Brown wrote and illustrated the book as a Star Wars riff on the Wimpy Kid format.
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A boy rejected from pilot school lands at Yoda's Jedi Academy and journals his first year of lightsaber class, hallway drama, and dark-side rivals.
Jeffrey Brown wrote three main Jedi Academy graphic novels (Jedi Academy, Return of the Padawan, The Phantom Bully). The Jedi Academy series later continued with additional volumes by Jarrett J. Krosoczka and others.
Jedi Academy is middle grade, recommended for readers 8 to 12. The graphic-novel format and Star Wars setting have made the series popular with reluctant readers and Star Wars fans alike.
Star Wars: Jedi Academy was written by Jeffrey Brown, published in 2015 by Scholastic, Incorporated.
Star Wars: Jedi Academy is a standalone novel by Jeffrey Brown, not part of a series.
Star Wars: Jedi Academy is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
