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(More customer reviews)I read this book about a year ago, but I still remember it very well. Because the series (Young Jedi Knights) was all about Jacen and Jaina Solo, they were the first books to really develop their characters. Jaina is spunky and adventurous and has a real talent for mechanical stuff and for flying. Jacen's talent is communicating through the force with animals, and he keeps a collection of them in his room. In this book, when the series stars off, the twins are fourteen years old and have left their home on Coruscant to attend Luke's Jedi academy on the fourth moon of Yavin. The plot involved the two adjusting to life at the academy and making some new friends, including Tenal Ka, a warrior girl, and Lowie, a Wookie who is Chewie's nephew. Jaina's father, Han Solo, gives her a hyperdrive to toy around with, because she loves mechanical thigns so much. She finds the wreckage of a TIE fighter from the battle of Yavin when the first Death Star was destroyed. So she'll have her own ship with hyperspace capabilities, she decides to install the hyperdrive in the fighter. That's where the trouble starts. It turns out that the pilot of the ship has been hiding in the jungle for twenty years. He doesn't know that the Empire has fallen, and when he learns his ship has been repaired, he decides to steal it and return to his command. And he doesn't care if he gets the kids hurt or killed in the process. What I liked best about this book was that it was a Star Wars story in which the main characters were my age. You don't have to be a kid or teenager to enjoy the book, though. I think all Star Wars fans will find it entertaining if they don't mind the simpler writing style.
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The first of six novels based on the Star Wars movies. While exploring the jungle outside the academy, Jacen and Jaina uncover the remains of an enemy fighter plane crashed years before in the years of the first great war.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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