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 is a Step 3 Book, 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.

Publisher's summary
Luke Skywalker wants to be a starpilot. But his uncle needs him to help on the farm. Then one day two droids show up. One of them carries a secret message. Now Luke's life is about to take off&hellip;

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

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

Creatures

 * Bantha

Droid models

 * 3PO-series protocol droid
 * LIN demolitionmech autonomous minelayer
 * R2-series astromech droid
 * R5-series astromech droid
 * WED-15 Septoid Treadwell

Events

 * Clone Wars

Locations

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

Organizations and titles

 * Galactic Empire
 * Imperial Space Academy
 * Jedi
 * Jedi General

Sentient species

 * Human
 * Jawa
 * Tusken Raider

Vehicles and vessels

 * Death Star I
 * Landspeeder
 * X-34 landspeeder
 * Sandcrawler
 * T-16 skyhopper

Weapons and technology

 * Gaderffii
 * Hologram
 * Holoprojector
 * Lightsaber
 * Macrobinoculars
 * Moisture vaporator
 * Restraining bolt
 * Stabilizer
 * Tape

Miscellanea

 * The Force

Behind the scenes
Unlike Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, where Luke notices R2-D2 is missing at night time and must wait until morning to search for the droid, Luke's Fate shows Luke discovering the missing droid immediately after breakfast. Upon making the discovery and searching through his macrobinoculars for any sign of the droid during a sunrise, instead of a sunset, Luke sets out in his landspeeder to find R2-D2. Additionally, Luke does not find out about the death of the Lars in this book; instead, he decides to follow Kenobi to Alderaan while visiting Ben Kenobi's hut.