The Bespin Book Club

    Author:  Tom Huddleston Time:  18 BBY, a year after the events of  Revenge of the Sith . The Empire is beginning its rule. Place: Space, aboard Shalla Mondatha's space food truck  Moveable Feast . Lina and Milo Graf are imprisoned on Shalla Mondatha's transport ship. Shalla--a.k.a. the bounty hunter The Shade--is bringing them to Imperial Captain Visler Korda. He has the Graf's parents captive, and he wants the information in their droid CR-8R's head. Shalla has put a restraining bolt on CR-8R to get him to comply. Before leaving Lothal’s space, she receives a couple more random prisoners from stormtroopers: a Lasat named Davin and a red headed human named Stel. En route to Korda, the kids hear some loud noises and the ship exits hyperspace. Everything in the ship seems to be on the fritz, including CR-8R's restraining bolt. He comes to rescue the Graf children. They leave the other two prisoners in their cells, promising to come back and rescue th...

    Author:  Cavan Scott Time:  18 BBY, a year after the events of  Revenge of the Sith . The Empire is beginning its rule. Place:  Lothal, which is in the Outer Rim, not  Wild Space. Lina and Milo Graf's parents are still missing. They were abducted by the Empire. The Graf kids have been trying to find someone to help them track down the Imperial Captain Visler Korda. In the previous book, they heard an anti-Imperial transmission and discovered its source: Lothal. They hope that they will finally find a responsible adult on this planet. When they land in Lothal's Capital City (I hate  that the capital is called Capital City!), the children are greeted by a shady Devaronian dude named Cikatro Vizago. You might know him from  Star Wars Rebels . In this book, he's not the  Lothal crime lord yet. He works for a Mon Calamari named Rask Odai, who runs his smuggling business out of the Twin Horns Storage facility. By the way, it's in this...