Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, also referred to as Star Wars Trilogy: Return of the Jedi, is a Legends junior novel written by Ryder Windham, based on a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas. It adapts the 1983 film Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, and it was first published on October 1, 2004 by Scholastic.
The novel was later collected in Star Wars Trilogy: Collector’s Edition (2005), Star Wars Boxed Set: Episodes I–VI (2007), and Star Wars: Classic Trilogy (2014). A revised, canon edition of the novel, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, was published in 2014.