Junior Jedi Knights 4: Anakin's Quest by Rebecca Moesta (1997)

 Anakin's Quest

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With the Golden Globe subplot wrapped up in about a page at the end of the last book (oops, forgot to mention that) the series gets handed off to Rebecca Moesta (Mrs. Kevin J Anderson) for a somewhat less connected second trilogy. Anakin has more bad dreams about turning into a Sith, so he talks to Luke, who sends him to Dagobah so he can go to THE CAVE.

A new character shows up, Uldir, a slightly older boy with no Force talent whatsoever. Evidently, the Academy has so many extra teachers and resources that Luke can afford to waste them on a kid with no Jedi potential. He stows away, and generally is annoying (though he occasionally manages to not be a complete douchenozzle, in a pretty impressive depth of character for a 90s kids book.)

In the end, Anakin makes it to the cave, sees that he could go with the light or dark side, and Ikrit reveals he was trained by Yoda himself hundreds of years ago. I'm pretty sure this is the second piece of concrete information we ever get about Yoda's past in the EU (there's some vague allusions to how he fought a dark Jedi on Dagobah in Heir to the Empire), so that's something.

Moesta's style is a bit cleaner than Richardson's, but not so different as to be terribly jarring, or make a big difference in the quality. 

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