STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE

When I read A New Hope it was one of my favorite Star Wars books. If you haven't read this book, I will tell you all about it.

The book starts with a star destroyer is attacking princess Leia's ship with the droids C-3PO and R2-D2 on it.The Rebels get ready for battle. Storm troopers boarded Leia's ship. The Rebels are now out numbered, so they retreat. C-3PO is looking for R2-D2 and he sees princess Leia putting a disc into R2-D2.The Storm troopers are getting closer. R2-D2 suggested to go to the escape pod, C-3PO disagrees, but when the storm troopers come he quickly changes his mind and goes into the escape pod.The Storm troopers come and the pod fly's away. The princes is captured by Storm Troopers.                                                                                                                                                                           The Storm troopers are taking princess Leia to Darth Vader and they argue for a long time.  The droids land on Tatoinne and they each go in a different direction.  They both get captured by a creature named Jawa.  The Jawa's sell them to Luke Skywalker, Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru.  Luke finds out that R2-D2 has a message from Princess Leia to Obi Wan Kenobi.  That night, R2-D2 runs away and Luke goes after him.  They get attacked by sand people.  A man named Ben Kenobi helps Luke and Luke learns that Ben Kenobi is actually Obi Wan Kenobi.  Obi Wan takes Luke to his house and talks to him about his father.  Luke finds out that his father was actually a Jedi and Obi Wan offers to train as a Jedi.  Luke agrees and takes Obi Wan to a restaurant.  At the restaurant they meet Han Salo and Chewbacca.  Han and Chewy helop Luke and Obi Wan by letting them go on their ship to Alderaan.

When they get to Alderaan, they find out that it's been completely blown up.  They go to a moon and they find out that the moon is actually a space station called the Death Star.  The Death Star sucks up the Millennium Falcon and everyone in it.  They plan to rescue Princess Leia and shut off the shield generator.  Obi Wan shuts off the generator, but he runs into Darth Vader.  While the two battle, Luke finds Leia and rescues her.  They get stuck in a garbage compacter.  All of a sudden, the two walls start coming together.  Eventually, they get out.  When they get to the Millennium Falcon, Luke sees Obi Wan battling Darth Vader and sees Vader kill Obi Wan.  Luke is very upset.

The gang gets to the rebel base and plan to destroy the Death Star. By himself, Luke blows up the Death Star.  Finally, Chewbacca, Han Solo, and Luke Skywalker get their awards from Princess Leia.

I enjoyed this book because it has a lot of action.  My favorite character is Han Solo.

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars and recommend to those who like action books.  

The Boxcar Children #1

What happens: first the children (Benny, Henry, Jessie and Violet) go to a bakery and they sleep there for one night.  Then they runaway because they wanted to take Benny to the orphanage.  Then they slept in a haystack for 2 days then they walked down the road and saw a boxcar with plenty of room inside and they thought they could make rooms for people.  They decided to stay there.  They ate bread. Then the night that they stayed there, they heard something outside.  They saw a dog limping.  The leg had a splinter in it.  Jessie pulled it out and they kept the dog and named him Watch.  Then two weeks later, their big brother Henry entered into a race. He started off slow and he looked at the person who won last year.  He passed number 6, number 16, number 20.  He was number 14 and people kept cheering 14, 14.  He passed 16 and he crossed the finish line and won the race.  People asked him what he would do with the money.  He said he would give it to his big sisster Jessie.  Jessie bought more food and more things they could eat food with.  Then two months later they came across a man and kind of recognized him. They didn't have a mom or dad but the man kind of looked like their grandfather.  The man realized they were his grandchildren so the man wanted them to move into his house, but they wanted to stick with the dog and stay in the boxcar. They made a deal that they would live in a box and he'd live next door.

Stars: 2 out of 5 stars because I like nonfiction better than fiction

Recommend this book for: people who like their family and their house