Star Wars: Jedi Academy

Star Wars: Jedi Academy is a non-canon series of Star Wars young-reader novels by Jeffrey Brown and later Jarrett J. Krosoczka and Amy Ignatow, published by Scholastic, targeted at grade-school audiences.

The original series focuses on the adventures of Roan Novachez, a young boy from Tatooine who learns to his surprise that he is sensitive in the Force and has been invited to attend Jedi Academy at the Jedi Temple of Coruscant. The second series, beginning with Jedi Academy: A New Class, focuses on the adventures of a new Padawan named Victor Starspeeder. A third story arc, Jedi Academy: Revenge of the Sis, features Christina Starspeeder.

The original series featured three titles and concluded with Jedi Academy: The Phantom Bully on June 30, 2015. There was also a supplementary book titled Jedi Academy: Attack of the Journal, and a box set of the three main titles was issued on September 29, 2015.

A second series features three more titles. It begins with Jedi Academy: A New Class, released on July 26, 2016. The series features a new author and illustrator, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, and a new cast of characters headlined by a boy named Victor Starspeeder whose youthful energies often land him in detention, supervised by Yoda.

A third story arc debuted in 2019.

Though the series has continued into 2019, the titles have been set within the continuity of Star Wars Legends, with clear references to locations and concepts from the Expanded Universe. The titles are set in a time period well before that of the prequel trilogy in order to avoid the grand events and political drama of that era and instead focus on a middle-school experience. However, the arc beginning with Jedi Academy: Revenge of the Sis references elements within the new canon continuity.

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