Luke's Fate

Luke's Fate is a paperback children's book by Jim Thomas with illustrations by Isidre Mones. It is part of Random House's Step into Reading series and intended for kids in grades 2 to 3. The book tells a story of Luke Skywalker, mostly recounting the first part of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.

Plot
Windy visits Luke on the Lars homestead where the young boy is daydreaming while listening to a tape of the Imperial Space Academy. Together they take Luke's Skyhopper and meet with his others friends at Beggar's Canyon. When Fixer makes fun of Luke and his dreams, Luke challenges Fixer to a race through Beggar's Canyon and threading the needle. Together with Windy he flies his skyhopper through the narrow canyon and beats Fixer by successfully flying through the Stone Needle, though he loses a stabilizer and can only barely avoid crashing into the ground. But now he knows that he was good enough to get into the academy.

In the evening he tries to talk to uncle Owen about the academy, but the old man refuses to let him go. The next day the Jawas arrive in a sandcrawler and Owen purchases a pair of droids that would change the young boys life forever. After discovering the disappearance of the astromech R2-D2, Luke and C-3PO head into the desert where they are attacked by Tusken Raiders and rescued by old Ben Kenobi. From Ben he learns that his father was once a Jedi, and that it will also be his destiny to become a Jedi under the guidance of Kenobi.

Characters

 * Windy
 * Luke Skywalker
 * Fixer
 * Owen Lars
 * Beru Lars
 * R2-D2
 * C-3PO
 * R5-D4
 * Leia Organa
 * Obi-Wan Kenobi
 * Anakin Skywalker

Species

 * Human
 * Jawa
 * Tusken Raider

Locations

 * Tatooine
 * Beggar's Canyon
 * Stone Needle
 * Lars homestead
 * Jundland Wastes
 * Ben Kenobi's hut

Starships & vehicles

 * T-16 skyhopper
 * Sandcrawler
 * X-34 landspeeder

Weapons

 * Gaderffii
 * Lightsaber

Other

 * Imperial Space Academy
 * Tape
 * Moisture vaporator
 * Macrobinoculars