Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (paperback novel)

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is a paperback young readers novelization for Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back. It was released on May 4, 2017, in honor of the 40th anniversary of A New Hope theatrical release.

It is a reprint of the October 2004 Scholastic publication STAR WARS TRILOGY: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, edited by Egmont editor Emil Fortune to make the book fit with the current new canon.

Summary
''2017 sees the 40th anniversary of the release of Star Wars: A New Hope, the film that launched the greatest space fantasy epic in history. To celebrate this, Egmont are publishing a set of junior novel adaptations of the original trilogy.''