Star Wars: The High Republic: A Test of Courage

✍ Scribed by Justina Ireland

• Publisher: Disney Book Group
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 330 KB
• Series: Star Wars&The High Republic
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1368062083

✦ Synopsis

Long before the Clone Wars, the Empire, or the First Order, the Jedi lit the way for the galaxy in a golden age known as the High Republic!

Vernestra Rwoh is a new Jedi Knight at age sixteen, but her first real assignment feels an awful lot like babysitting. She's been charged with supervising twelve-year old aspiring inventor Avon Starros on a cruiser headed to the dedication of a wondrous new space station called Starlight Beacon.

But soon into their journey, bombs go off aboard the cruiser. While the adult Jedi try to save the ship, Vernestra, Avon, Avon's droid J-6, a Jedi Padawan, and an ambassador's son make it to an escape shuttle, but communications are out and supplies are low. They decide to land on a nearby moon, which offers shelter but not much more. And unbeknownst to them, danger lurks in the forest....

"Rich internal third-person dialogue reveals dollops of inner turmoil for each character at key moments as well as providing some much-needed...

✦ Subjects

Interplanetary voyages -- Juvenile fiction