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Star Wars Leia: Princess The Legends of
Made Easy of Alderaan Luke Skywalker
Chances are, you’re already We’ve seen Leia Organa as With Luke Skywalker returning
a fan of the saga. But what a senator, covertly helping to cinema screens in The Last
about your friends and family? the Rebel Alliance. We’ve Jedi, this new middle-grade
We all know someone who witnessed her as a fi erce rebel, novel from Ken Liu explores the
either hasn’t seen the movies leading the assault on the legends that surround the most
(weird, huh?), or likes them, second Death Star’s shield famous Jedi of them all.
but their knowledge isn’t as generator. And, in The Force The Legends of Luke
deep as they’d like it to be. Now Awakens, we were reunited Skywalker, to be released this
wouldn’t it be great if there with her, now a cunning General October from Disney Lucasfi lm
was a book written with those in the Resistance. Press, is Liu’s fi rst Star Wars

people in mind? But before all that she was fiction, but the author has

Star Wars Made Easy is a princess on Alderaan. That established a firm fan following
exactly that. Not only does it period of her life has remained thanks to his acclaimed fantasy
offer simple, clear explanations unexplored until now in this novels The Grace of Kings and
of each movie, it makes an new novel by Claudia Grey. The Wall of Storms. Liu has
ideal refresher volume, and the Having demonstrated a keen already established his Star
perfect bedside companion for understanding of the older Leia Wars fan creds with the short
novices wanting to understand in 2015’s Bloodline, Gray turns story, “Paper Menagerie,”
everything from the epic scope her attention to the 16-year- which references the saga. The
of the saga to its quotes and old girl taking steps toward book also includes six original
in-jokes. The book is available leadership. Out in September illustrations by comic-book
in September from DK. from Disney Lucasfi lm Press. artist J. G. Jones.

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