In case you didn’t get enough Star Wars on May the 4th (be with you), launch into hyperspace to Jeffrey Brown’s cartoonified and family-friendly vision of the far-away galaxy. Brown, who brought you Mother’s and Father’s Day giftables Vader and Son and Vader’s Little Princess, invites you to enroll in Jedi Academy come Aug. 27.
Jedi Academy captures the humor and awkwardness of middle school — all told through one boy’s comics, journal entries, letters, doodles, and newspaper clippings. Roan’s one dream is to leave home and attend Pilot Academy like his older brother, father, and grandfather. But just as Roan is mysteriously denied entrance to Pilot Academy, he is invited to attend Jedi Academy — a school that he didn’t apply to and only recruits children when they are just a few years old. That is, until now. This novel follows Roan’s first year at Jedi Academy where, under the tutelage of Master Yoda, he learns that he possesses more strength and potential than he could have ever dreamed. Oh, and he learns other important things too — like how to make a baking soda volcano, fence with a lightsaber, slow dance with a girl, and lift boulders with the Force.
Check out a sneak peek of Jedi Academy below!: READ FULL STORY »
