Star Wars: The High Republic (Middle Grade)
Series · 3 books · 2024-2025
Books in series
#1
Escape from Valo
2024
Star Wars: The High Republic, the New York Times best-selling series, continues... For light and life!
Journey to the embattled Occlusion Zone in this action-packed adventure set hundreds of years before the Skywalker saga! It’s a dark and dangerous time for the galaxy in which communication has been rendered nearly impossible in Nihil-controlled space as the nefarious pirates continue to threaten the Republic’s very existence. Join Jedi Padawans—including Ram Jomaram—as they plot their escape from enemy territory.
Hopeful young Padawans will have to work together to overcome their fears in order to survive—and help save the galaxy.
#2
Beware the Nameless
2024
The New York Times best-selling series continues with this compelling and fast-paced adventure set during the High Republic that picks up after Escape from Valo .
It is a dark and dangerous time for the galaxy, and the Jedi of the High Republic must face their greatest trials yet. A year has passed since the destruction of the Starlight Beacon, and hopeful Jedi-in-training must work together to overcome their fears—and stop the monsters that threaten the very existence of the Jedi.
#3
A Valiant Vow (Star Wars
The High Republic
2025
The New York Times best-selling series comes to an epic conclusion in this final installment of this wave of High Republic storytelling.
Written by Justina Ireland, one of the original High Republic story architects, the author of several Star Wars novels including Star Wars: The High Republic: A Test of Courage and Star Wars: The High Republic: Mission to Disaster, and a staff writer on the Netflix TV mini-series The Fall of the House of Usher. This eerie, high-stakes adventure features six full-color pages of art!
It’s all been leading to this! Fan-favorite Padawans and younglings must team-up to stop the seemingly unstoppable blight all while dealing with technological terrors in the form of crab-like scav droids that destroy everything in their path!
Authors
Daniel Jose Older
Author · 40 books
Daniel José Older is the New York Times bestselling author of the Young Adult series the Shadowshaper Cypher (Scholastic), the Bone Street Rumba urban fantasy series (Penguin), and the upcoming Middle Grade sci-fi adventure Flood City (Scholastic). He won the International Latino Book Award and has been nominated for the Kirkus Prize, the Mythopoeic Award, the Locus Award, the Andre Norton Award, and yes, the World Fantasy Award. Shadowshaper was named one of Esquire’s 80 Books Every Person Should Read. You can find his thoughts on writing, read dispatches from his decade-long career as an NYC paramedic and hear his music at http://danieljoseolder.net/, on youtube and @djolder on twitter.
Zoraida Cordova
Author · 27 books
Zoraida Córdova is the author of many fantasy novels for kids and teens, including the award-winning Brooklyn Brujas series, Incendiary, and Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge: A Crash of Fate. Her short fiction has appeared in the New York Times bestselling anthology Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View, Star Wars The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark, Come on In: 15 Stories About Immigration and Finding Home, and Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women and Witchcraft. She is the co-editor of the bestselling anthology Vampires Never Get Old. Her debut middle grade novel is The Way to Rio Luna. She is the co-host of the podcast Deadline City with Dhonielle Clayton. Zoraida was born in Ecuador and raised in Queens, New York. When she isn’t working on her next novel, she’s planning a new adventure. NOTE: Direct messages on this account may not be seen. Send her an email at zoraidabooks@gmail.com
Alyssa Wong
Author · 18 books
Alyssa Wong studies fiction in Raleigh, NC, and really, really likes crows. She was a finalist for the 2016 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and her story, “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers,” won the 2015 Nebula Award for Best Short Story and the 2016 World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Pushcart Prize, the Bram Stoker Award, the Locus Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award. Her work has been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Nightmare Magazine, Black Static, and Tor.com, among others.
Justina Ireland
Author · 22 books
Justina Ireland is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous books including Dread Nation and its sequel Deathless Divide, the middle-grade novel Ophie's Ghosts, which won the Scott O'Dell award for historical fiction, and a number of Star Wars books including Flight of the Falcon: Lando’s Luck, Spark of the Resistance, A Test of Courage, Out of the Shadows, and Mission to Disaster. She is a former editor in chief of FIYAH Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, for which she won a World Fantasy Award. She holds a BA in History from Georgia Southern and an MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University.
