Boba Fett : The Fight to Survive Boba Fett : The Fight to Survive is the first in a series of young reader novels that chronicles the adventures of Boba Fett during the years between and . Publisher ' s summary . Born to be a bounty hunter . " Boba Fett is not like other boys . His father , Jango Fett , is a bounty hunter . His planet , Kamino , is home to an army of clones . He has no friends , no school . The one thing he does have is a future as a bounty hunter . " " This future comes quickly . Suddenly Boba Fett is all alone in a dangerous galaxy . He must struggle for safety — and vengeance — using his strength , his intelligence and his father ' s hard lessons . " " Boba Fett will grow up to be one of the most feared bounty hunters in the galaxy . " " But first he must survive his childhood . " Plot summary . Boba Fett starts out on Kamino , the rainy world in the Outer Rim . His greatest wish is to be just like his father and become the next great bounty hunter of the galaxy . Boba ' s father leaves with Zam Wesell to go on a mission . When Jango returns he soon tells Boba of Zam ' s death . Boba is then given a black book , which his father tells him to open only in the case of his death . Soon after Jango ' s return to Kamino , a Jedi , Obi - Wan Kenobi , shows up to investigate Jango Fett and see the clone army . Jango and Obi - Wan are introduced but after the meeting Jango informs his son that they are leaving . Boba goes to Whrr , the Kaminoan librarian droid to return some books , but accidentally drops off the black book as well . Boba runs and enters " Slave I " , his father ' s ship , and watches as his father and the Jedi battle on the landing platform which looks to have ended as Obi - Wan falls to the ocean of Kamino . The Jedi pursues and gives chase to " Slave I " . Jango released seismic charges inside an asteroid field and with no trace of the Jedi or his ship Jango and Boba both thought him to be dead . The father - son pair landed at a stalagmite city , on Geonosis . Boba is given a room to stay in and warned by Jango " Be here when I get back . " Boba disobeys his father and leaves his room to explore the city . During his wandering he investigates a strange sound which turns out to be the droid factory . Aware of the trouble he would be in if caught , Boba hurries back to his room and gets there just before his father returns . His father reminds him to stay in his room . Boba , disobeying his father again , leaves the room for a second time . He ventures outside the city and explores the mesas and plateaus outside . He sees a sand snake which is being attacked by two massiffs . They spot Boba and charge at him . Boba kills one by running it off a cliff after slashing at it with a piece of mica . The other massiff runs off after being attacked . Boba wanders around and finds Obi - Wan Kenobi , somehow still alive after their space battle . Boba signals the guard by reflecting light off his piece of mica into the massiff ' s eyes . Droidekas attack and capture the Jedi , thanks to Boba ’ s warning . Boba returns to his room once more where his Father talks to him about disobedience . Jango then escorts Boba to the Arena for the executions of Obi - Wan Kenobi , Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala . Boba is fascinated by the three beasts , the reek , nexu , and acklay , who are to be the executioners . Boba watches as Obi - Wan , Anakin and Padmé escape and with the help of the newly arrived Jedi and the clone army , attack the Separatists . This starts the Clone Wars . During the intense battle Boba sees his father die at Mace Windu ' s hand . When the battle is over , Boba takes his father ’ s armor and buries him . Boba then returns " Slave I " and opens the black book and finds a message from his father , telling him to seek Jabba the Hutt and Count Dooku . Boba remembers his father was recruited on one of the moons of Bogden and heads to Bogg 4 . There he meets Aia , a pickpocket . He also meets many different people who tell him where Count Dooku is . He heads back to " Slave I " and finds that Honest Gjon has stolen his ship . Aia tells Boba to go to Gjon ' s workshop and reclaim his ship , but Gjon suggests a job instead . Gjon tells Boba how they could steal false credits to make some money . The three steal a whole basket of credits , but a security guard stops them . After Boba uses " Slave I " to hurl the security guard — in reality , a hijacker — into the atmosphere , the threesome celebrate quietly , and Aia pickpockets Boba , leaving him with no money . Boba goes back to " Slave I " and heads to the bar which he had been told was where he would find Count Dooku . The people who had told him to go there turn out to be bounty hunters . The bartender there holds Boba until another bounty hunter , Aurra Sing , steps in and stuns the giant bartender . She captures Boba and brings him to the trash planet of the galaxy , Raxus Prime . Aurra Sing then leaves Boba on the planet and flies off in " Slave 1 " . Boba finds a concealed doorway in a trash pile that leads to Count Dooku ' s base . Behind the scenes . The first half of the novel is told in a first - person narrative from Boba ' s perspective of the events before and during " Attack of the Clones " including scenes specifically written for the novelization of the movie . " The Fight to Survive " is the first source to pair up young Boba with the bounty hunter Aurra Sing , which would not be done again until the of the . Cover gallery . This is a gallery of the different cover variations of " Boba Fett : The Fight to Survive " .