Star Wars: A New Hope is a paperback junior novelization of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. It was released on May 4, 2017, in honor of the 40th anniversary of A New Hope's theatrical release.[1]

The book updates the Star Wars Legends Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope junior novelization, which was written by Ryder Windham. Egmont editor Emil Fortune edited the book to make it fit with the current canon.

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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.

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