Her other books include the romance series Brides of Wildcat County, the parapsychic science fiction works Premonitions and Disappearance, and three books in the 39 Clues mystery-adventure series, all written for young adults. Scholastic says that the primary audience is children age 9 to 14. Burkett in the Star Wars: Science Adventures series. īeside the journals of Princess Leia, Queen Amidala (1999), and Darth Maul (1999), Watson is the author of three series that comprise about forty books: Jedi Apprentice (except for the first book), Jedi Quest, and The Last of the Jedi. Her debut came when LucasBooks recruited her to write the Star Wars Journal Captive to Evil by Princess Leia Organa, published by Scholastic in 1998. Writing for the Star Wars franchise, she worked with editors from LucasBooks as well as Scholastic. Her publisher, Scholastic, calls her 'the most celebrated author in the prequel-era of the Star Wars phenomenon' (that is, Star Wars fiction set in the time frame of the three prequel movies). Life īlundell is better known as Jude Watson, an author of books set in the Star Wars universe. She won the annual National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2008 for the young adult novel What I Saw and How I Lied, published under her real name by Scholastic Books. Judy Blundell, pseudonym Jude Watson, is an American author of books for middle grade, young adult, and adult readers. National Book Award for Young People's Literature

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