A Star Wars Legends Middle Grade Literature series written by Nancy Richardson and Rebecca Moesta. Six books (The Golden Globe, Lyrics World, Promises, Anakin's Quest, Vader's Fortress, and Kenobi's Blade) were written between 1995 and 1997. Similar to the Young Jedi Knights series, these books follow a child of Han Solo and Leia Organa; this time their youngest son, Anakin, as he attends Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy alongside and gets into a load of misadventures alongside his friend Tahiri Veila.
Tropes:
- Badass Bystander: In Lyric's World, several young Melodies help Anakin and Tahiri fight back against a snake monster by throwing rocks at it. Given how they've grown up on a Death World, they have quite a bit of practice.
- Death World: The moon of Yavin 8 is occupied by sentient aliens called Melodies and all kinds of predators (avians, rodents, snakes, and the vicious Purella spiders) that are constantly trying to eat the Melodies. The Melodies start sending their Force-sensitive children to the Jedi Academy to learn combat techniques to fight back.
- Fake Wizardry: The final two books feature Orloc, a supposed Dark Side mage, who turns out to be just a conman using various gadgets to make it look like he can use the Force.
- I Just Want to Be Badass: The second half of the series features a boy named Uldir Lochett, who wants to be a Jedi despite only being mildly Force-sensitive, and has an inflated view of his own importance and destiny (although he does get some Character Development).
- Innocuously Important Episode: The series has fairly low stakes, but it also introduces Tahiri Veila and sets the stage for her Childhood Friend Romance with Anakin, which plays a big role in the New Jedi Order books and beyond.
- Kill the Parent, Raise the Child: Tahiri Veila is a human raised by Tuskens, in penitence for having killed her birth parents under mistaken assumptions. Her father and mother had rescued the injured Tusken Sliven, who thanked them by teaching them how to fight with a gaderffii staff, but Sliven's tribe witnessed their sparring and mistook it for their tribesman being attacked.
- Knight of Cerebus: The second book is at its darkest when the Purella spider is the POV character and fantasizes about capturing children to eat alive.
- Mentor Mascot: Despite being a small furry quadriped, Ikrit turns out to be a powerful Jedi master taught by Yoda himself, and helps provide guidance to Anakin and Tahiri.
- No Antagonist: The first four books don't have any antagonists besides some dangerous predators (although one in Lyric's World gets a decent amount of page-time and It Can Think characterization). Anakin and Tahiri spend the first three books trying to free the spirits of several children who the Sith Lord Exar Kun imprisoned, but Kun met his final defeat back when Anakin was a baby, so he has no direct role in the series.
- Our Mermaids Are Different: The Melodies of Yavin 8 hatch from eggs, live on land for the first twenty years of their lives, then metamorphize into mermaids, and find it harder to breathe air the older they get.
- Poor Communication Kills: Tahiri's parents rescued Sliven, an injured Tusken Raider, in the desert, and while he was recuperating, he taught them gaderffii combat in gratitude. Sliven's friends came looking for him and saw Tahiri's father swinging a gaderffii staff while Sliven looked hurt and helpless. They thought Tahiri's parents were attacking Sliven and killed them before he could explain.
