AR 3.1 to 3.9
These Star Wars books are for young readers who are ready for more story and text, but who still love pictures and drawings.
Go to the bottom of this post for books at easier levels.
Anakin's Race for Freedom (used source #1)
or Anakin's Race for Freedom (used source #2)
by Alice Alfonsi
Jose Miralles (Illus.)
GoodReads - 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
Note: This book is one that's currently only available as a used book at Amazon. (Which usually means they are cheap.) We've provided links to more than one page where they are offered.
Description - Anakin Skywalker works as a slave in Watto's junk shop. One day, a group of strange travelers come to the shop in need of help. What happens next will change Anakin's life forever.
- Publisher: Random House (1999)
- ISBN-10: 0375808914 or 0375800271
- ISBN-13: 978-1416997924
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Reading Information:
Word Count: 1329
Reading Level: 3.2
Interest Level: Elementary
Accelerated Reading level: 3.2 / points: 0.5
Dangers of the Core
by Jim K. Thomas
GoodReads - 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
Amazon readers - Very Very Good
Description - Jar Jar Binks guides two Jedi knights, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, on a dangerous journey through the core of the planet Naboo to warn the Queen of an invasion.
- Hardcover: 47 pages
- Publisher: LucasBooks for Young Readers (1999)
- ISBN-10: 0375900020
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Reading Information:
Word Count: 1829
Reading Level: 3.2
Interest Level: Elementary
Accelerated Reading level: 3.2 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 109598
A Queen's Diary
by Simon Beecroft
GoodReads - 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
Amazon readers - Very Very Good
Notes - Padmé Amidala, Queen of Naboo (and Anakin's future wife), talks about her life. This includes information about Anakin, her education and handmaidens. There are lots of photographs, which may or may not be interesting to boys.
Sample text:
Today I became a fighter.
No one would help my people,
so I had to help them myself.
I went with the Jedi to ask the
Gungans for help.
- Paperback: 32 pages
- Publisher: DK CHILDREN (2007)
- ISBN-10: 0756632692
- ISBN-13: 978-0756632694
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Reading Information:
Word Count: 988
Reading Level: 3.3
Interest Level: Elementary
Accelerated Reading level: 3.3 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 128704
Clone Troopers in Action
by Clare Hibbert
Description - This book tells the story of the clone troopers in STAR WARS: ATTACK OF THE CLONES and how they were created as clones of Jango Fett to do battle.
Note: Though written at the 3rd Grade level, we found that the sentence structure was a little stilted. Boys will love it anyway.
- Paperback: 32 pages
- Publisher: DK Publishing (2010)
- ISBN-10: 0756666910
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Reading Information:
Word Count: 676
Reading Level: 3.4
Interest Level: ElementaryAccelerated Reading level: 3.4 / points: 0.5
Anakin's Fate
by Marc Cerasini
John Alvin (Illustrator)
GoodReads - 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
Amazon readers - Top notch
Description - Anakin Skywalker fights to believe in his dreams in spite of his day-to-day life as a slave on the planet Tatooine.
Description - Anakin Skywalker fights to believe in his dreams in spite of his day-to-day life as a slave on the planet Tatooine.
- Hardcover: 48 pages
- Publisher: LucasBooks for Young Readers (1999)
- ISBN-10: 0375900292
- ISBN-13: 978-0375900297
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Reading Information:
Word Count: 3195Reading Level: 3.4
Interest Level: ElementaryAccelerated Reading level: 3.4 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 106470
Operation: Huttlet
by Steele Filipek
GoodReads - 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings
Description - Jedi knight Anakin Skywalker, along with his Padawan Ahsoka Tano go on a mission to rescue Jabba the Hutt's son, Rotta the Huttlet, after Rotta is kidnapped by the evil Count Dooku.
- Paperback: 48 pages
- Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap (2008)
- ISBN-10: 0448449951
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Reading Information:
Word Count: 3840
Reading Level: 3.4
Interest Level: ElementaryAccelerated Reading level: 3.4 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 134338
Battle at Teth
by Kirsten Mayer
GoodReads - 4.11 avg rating — 11 ratings
Amazon readers - Very Good
Description - The Clone Wars rage on. On the planet of Teth, one brave clone captain leads his troops into battle against an overwhelming droid army.
- Paperback: 32 pages
- Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
- ISBN-10: 0448449935
- ISBN-13: 978-0448449937
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Reading Information:
Word Count: 996
Reading Level: 3.5
Interest Level: ElementaryAccelerated Reading level: 3.5 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 141885
Meet Ahsoka Tano
by Kirsten Mayer
GoodReads - 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
Amazon readers - Very Good
Description - Ahsoka Tano travels to the planet Christophsis where she joins Anakin Skywalker in fighting a droid army and learns the ways of the Jedi.
- Paperback: 32 pages
- Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap (October 2, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0448450348
- ISBN-13: 978-0448450346
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Reading Information:
Word Count: 1253
Reading Level: 3.5
Interest Level: ElementaryAccelerated Reading level: 3.5 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 141890
Journey Through Space
by Ryder Windham
GoodReads - 3.6 avg rating — 15 ratings
Amazon readers - Top notch
Description - In this book, young readers are taken on a journey through the STAR WARS galaxy, discovering its moons, planets, and the people and creatures who live there.
Description - In this book, young readers are taken on a journey through the STAR WARS galaxy, discovering its moons, planets, and the people and creatures who live there.
- Paperback: 32 pages
- Publisher: DK CHILDREN (2005)
- ISBN-10: 0756611598
- ISBN-13: 978-0756611590
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Reading Information:
Word Count: 840
Reading Level: 3.6
Interest Level: ElementaryAccelerated Reading level: 3.6 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: quiz: 101052
Jedi in Training
by Heather Scott
GoodReads - 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
Description - Ahsoka Tano trains to become a Jedi during the dangerous time of the Clone Wars.
- Paperback: 32 pages
- Publisher: DK CHILDREN (2009)
- ISBN-10: 0756651999
- ISBN-13: 978-0756651992
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Reading Information:
Word Count: 880
Reading Level: 3.8
Interest Level: ElementaryAccelerated Reading level: 3.8 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 131734
R2-D2 and Friends
by Simon Beecroft
GoodReads - 4.0 avg rating — 11 ratings
Amazon readers - Very Good
Description - This book describes the characteristics, abilities, and adventures of R2-D2, C-3PO, and other droids that populate the STAR WARS universe.
- Paperback: 32 pages
- Publisher: DK Publishing (2008)
- ISBN-10: 0756645166
- ISBN-13: 978-0756645168
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Reading Information:
Word Count: 1096
Reading Level: 3.8
Interest Level: ElementaryAccelerated Reading level: 3.8 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 130385
Anakin: Apprentice
by Marc Cerasini
GoodReads - 4.0 avg rating — 13 ratings
Amazon readers - okay
Description - Nineteen-year-old Anakin Skywalker, apprentice to Obi-Wan Kenobi, remembers some of his past adventures in which he raced swoop bikes, built androids, and found crystals to complete his lightsaber.
- Paperback: 48 pages
- Publisher: LucasBooks for Young Readers (2002)
- ISBN-10: 0375814639
- ISBN-13: 978-0375814631
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Reading Information:
Word Count: 3196
Reading Level: 3.9Accelerated Reading level: 3.9 / points: 0.5 / quiz: 106472
The New Padawan
by Eric Stevens
GoodReads - 4.22 avg rating — 23 ratings
Amazon readers - Good
Description - The Jedi Council assigns Anakin Skywalker a Padawan learner named Ahsoka, who may prove to be more than Anakin can handle.
Description - The Jedi Council assigns Anakin Skywalker a Padawan learner named Ahsoka, who may prove to be more than Anakin can handle.
- Paperback: 48 pages
- Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap (2008)
- ISBN-10: 0448449943
- ISBN-13: 978-0448449944
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Reading Information:
Word Count: 3922Reading Level: 3.9 Interest Level: ElementaryAccelerated Reading level: 3.9 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 127158
For books at slightly easier reading levels, see our lists:
Accelerated Readers at 1.2 to 2.5
Accelerated Readers at 2.5 to 3.0