The Rising Force (Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice, Book 1)
by Dave Wolverton
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Author: Dave WolvertonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-06-01
ISBN: 0590519220
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
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Book Review: The Adventure Begins!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the first book in the series, It is one of my favorites because it starts the whole series off! It's great book that you really should read! I very much reckomend it, but there are 11 others and all are better that the last! I have a friend who hasn't read them, and I think that it's nice to have it all explained! So, first of all, I would sugjust starting here! #1. Obi-Wan Kenobi age 12 wishes to become a Jedi before he is 13 (which is the 'rule' in the Temple) his last chance is Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn. But Qui-Gon has already 'ruined' his old apprentice Xanatoes. He will not train Obi-Wan. But when they get stuck on a ship together Qui-Gon begins to see the difference in Obi-Wan! #2. Obi-Wan still wishes for a Master, but now he thinks there is no way. On the planet Bandomeer as a farmer, with only a week till his birthday, Qui-Gon will never pick him. Suddenly something happens to get Qui-Gon's attention, Obi-Wan is kidnapped! #3. Obi-Wan is finally apprenticed to Qui-Gon, this books starts out on his 13th birthday. Almost instantly things start happening, Qui-Gon gives Obi-Wan a strange birthday gift, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan get tricked onto a different planet were they begin to help the suffering people there and yet again Obi-Wan finds himself in a treachorous predicament! #4. More of a mystery, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan reach there origanally planned destination, the planet Gala. Were there are elections going on for a new govener. Obi-Wan is left behind while Qui-Gon goes of to find a rumored princess. Obi-Wan has to solve the mystery of why the Queen is so sick. Can he do it? #5. To save a Jedi Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan travel to a planet to rescue a Jedi named Tahl. The planet has been in a civil war longer than anyone can remember. At first the difficulty is getting Tahl, then a new conflict arises, they meet a group of children fighting for peace and Obi-Wan begins to doubt his comitment to the Jedi. #6. Obi-Wan has left the Jedi to help the Young, the children on the waring planet. They must fight for the peace even when the most devestating thing happens. Meanwhile, Qui-Gon, Tahl and a Jedi student, Bant are trying to solve there own mystery, who is the intruder in the Jedi Temple? #7. Obi-Wan returns to the Temple after bringing peace to the planet at war. Qui-Gon is still trying to discover the intruder. When they find out who it is the question is can they stop him? Along the way Obi-Wan wishes again to have Qui-Gon as a Master, but will Qui-Gon ever take him back? #8. Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon chase Xanatoes to his home planet, were there self oppointed mission is to bring him out of hiding and bring him to justis, but suddenly they find, that Xanatoes isn't hiding, and the people of Telos adore him. Now the Conflict has become more worse then ever! #9. Obi-Wan is yet again Qui-Gon's apprentice. They are traveling with two other Jedi, Adi Gallia and her apprentice Siri who hates Obi-Wan's leaving and now does not trust him. But when they reach a planet stricken with blindness to the truth. They have to fight together to bring out the trut. #10. Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon travel to a planet where the Royal children are always traded around between two planets at an early age and traded back to be kings and queens when there older. But a sudden problem arises...One heir does not wish to go back, could this mean war?! #11. Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan are back to Corasant, while there Obi-Wan is introduced to a strange friend of Qui-Gon's who turns out to have a presuer, an evil bounty hunter who will stop it nothing to kill him. Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan try to stop her, but it is no good, and in they end they become her enimies as well! Well, that is the entire Jedi Apprentice series! So far. I think it is my favorite series ever! I very VERY much reckomend this book, and I strongly sugjest you read the WHOLE series!
Summary of The Rising Force (Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice, Book 1)
A dynamic new Star Wars series, following the adventures and education of thirteen-year-old Obi-Wan Kenobi and his Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn as they travel across the galaxy as guardians of peace. Combining action, Jedi detail, and the thematic significance that readers expect from Star Wars, "Jedi Apprentice" is sure to engage both Star Wars fans and newcomers to the Star Wars galaxy.Just before his 13th birthday, Obi-Wan Kenobi left Yoda and the other teachers at the Jedi Temple. But he wasn't supposed to become a Padawan, a future Jedi Knight, he was assigned to be a farmer! Jedi Apprentice: The Rising Force joins the headstrong Obi-Wan a few weeks before he's to turn 13, when he'll be too old to begin training as a Jedi Knight. Trying too hard to become Qui-Gon Jinn's Padawan, Obi-Wan shows his lack of discipline, and that--in addition to Qui-Gon's mysterious past--keeps them apart. But the Force keeps pulling the two together: Obi-Wan resigns himself to the Jedi Agricultural Corps on barren Bandomeer, only to find that Qui-Gon is on a mission to the same planet. Traveling there on a mining ship, the two must work together to forge a truce between the warring Hutt, Whiphid, and Arconan miners on board. The inexperienced Obi-Wan stirs up trouble but gets plenty of chances to redeem himself later--after the pirates attack and after the ship crash-lands on a hostile planet with the crew still at each other's throats. Experienced Star Wars author Dave Wolverton keeps the blasters firing and the lightsabers swinging in this fun, fast-paced adventure. (Ages 9 to 12) --Paul Hughes
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