Independent Reading Level: Grades 3-5

The book is about George Lucases life. He was born in a small town in California and grew up of of cartoons and movies. His grades were never good but after a near death experience while racing cars he decided to focus on school more and graduated from a junior college. After he graduated he got into a filming school and made lots of small short films. After graduating from that school he tried to pitch a futuristic movie. It flopped, though he keep trieing to make a good film. Eventually American Grafitte came. A hit move about the 60's. After he got move confidence and went on to be one of the greatest film makers of all time