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{{BookInfobox|
title=The Four Star Challenge |
image=Four Star Challenge.png |
image_size=250px |
published=August 2000 |
ISBN=9780439169448 |
publisher=[[Scholastic]]|
author=[[Howard Dewin]]|
previous=[[Secret of the Pink Pokémon]] |
next=[[Scyther, Heart of a Champion]]
}}
'''''The Four Star Challenge''''' by [[Howard Dewin]] is the eleventh book in the [[Pokémon anime novelization series|adaption of the Pokémon anime]]. It was published by [[Scholastic]]. It is the third book to take place in the [[Orange Archipelago|Orange Islands]].  It is 90 pages in length.

===Blurb===
'''The Ultimate Test'''

''The Orange Islands have a Pokémon League of their own. But these gym matches are beyond different. Mountain Climbing? Dancing Pokémon? And sometimes Ash can't even use his Pokémon! What's up with that? Can Ash stand the challenge? With help from his friends and a little luck, Ash just might have a chance.''

==Synopsis==
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This book is based on the events of the {{pkmn|anime}} episodes ''[[EP085|Fit to be Tide]]'', ''[[EP093|Navel Maneuvers]]'', ''[[EP099|The Mandarin Island Miss Match]]'' and ''[[EP103|Misty Meets Her Match]]''.

===Fit to be Tide===

{{Ash}}, [[Misty]]  and {{Tracey}} are riding on Lapras on their way to Mikan Island for Ash's first [[Orange League]] Challenge.  They climb off of Lapras and begin to hike through the jungle on the way to the gym.  Suddenly, a young boy hops down in their path.  Ash tells him that he is looking for the gym and the boys laughs, saying the Orange Crew is way tougher than him.  A young woman walks around the corner and asks the little boy if he is causing trouble.  Ash says that he has come to challenge the gym and she reveals that she is the Mikan Island gym leader and accepts his challenge.  She tells Ash that her name is [[Cissy]] and tells Ash that she wants to use Water Pokémon for her battle against him since he is a little squirt. 

Everybody follows Cissy into the gym.  Pushing a button, the gym floor slides away to reveal a pool.  On the side of the pool, on top of a table, were tin cans.  Cissy throws out {{p|Seadra}}.   Cissy announces that she and Ash are going to have the {{m|Water Gun}} Challenge.  She tells Ash to pick his Pokémon with the best Water Gun attack.  Ash lets out Squirtle.  Cissy has Seadra aim its Water Gun at the cans and it knocks them all down.  Tracey begins to sketch Seadra as Ash has Squirtle aim its Water Gun at the cans.  Squirtle knocks off all of the cans.

Cissy then decides that they are going to try it with moving targets.  A flying disk flies out and Seadra hits it out of the air.  Then Seadra also hits three more disks out of the air.  Next, it was Squirtle's turn.  One disk flew out into the air and Squirtle shot it down.  Then three flew out and Squirtle knocked them out too.  Cissy decided there would be a quick-draw contest.  Whoever hit the disk first won.  Tracey grabbed his binoculars.  The disk flew out and Seadra and Squirtle fired. The disk exploded and no one could tell who hit it first.  Tracey says that they hit at the same time.  Cissy tells Ash that the winner of his challenge would be decided by a Pokémon Wave Ride.  Cissy then heads for the beach.

Ash asks Cissy what wave riding is as they stand on the beach.  Cissy says that they each have a Pokémon that they can ride on swim out to a flag in the ocean, circle it, then head back.  Cissy releases her Pokémon, a {{p|Blastoise}}.  Ash chooses the ride on Lapras.  They both got onto their Pokémon and got ready to go.  Cissy tells her brother to fire just as a Magikarp Submarine explodes onto the surface.  [[Team Rocket]] launch into their motto then demand Pikachu.  James sends out Weezing who ues {{m|Smoke Screen}}.  They fire a net which misses Pikahcu and captures Blastoise.  They drag Blastoise into the water but Cissy is confident that Blastoise can handle them.  Suddenly, Blastoise comes firing up out of the water.  Pikachu and Blastoise then send them blasting off.  

==Major events==
* {{Ash}} earns the [[Badge#Orange League|Coral-Eye, Sea Ruby and Spike Shell]] Badges.
* Ash and {{ashfr|friends}} meet [[Lorelei#In the anime|Prima]].

==Debuts==
'''Humans'''
* [[Cissy]]
* [[Dan]]
* [[Rudy]]
* [[Prima]]

'''Pokémon Debuts'''

==Characters==
===Humans===
* {{Ash}}
* [[Misty]]
* {{Tracey}}
* [[Jessie]]
* [[James]]
* [[Cissy]]
* [[Senta (anime)|Senta]]
* [[Dan]]
* [[Rudy]]
* [[Mahri]]
* [[Prima]]

===Pokémon===
* {{p|Pikachu}} ({{op|Ash|Pikachu}})
* {{p|Meowth}} ({{TRM}})
* {{p|Togepi}}  ({{OP|Misty|Togepi}})
* {{p|Charizard}}  ({{OP|Ash|Charizard}})
* {{p|Squirtle}}  ({{OP|Ash|Squirtle}})
* {{p|Lapras}} ({{op|Ash|Lapras}})
* {{p|Nidoqueen}}
* {{p|Geodude}}
* {{p|Seadra}}
* {{p|Blastoise}}
* {{p|Scyther}}
* {{p|Machoke}}
* {{p|Persian}}
* {{p|Tauros}}
* {{p|Seel}}
* {{p|Electabuzz}}
* {{p|Starmie}}
* {{p|Exeggutor}}
* {{p|Golem}}
* {{p|Hitmonchan}}
* {{p|Slowbro}}

==Trivia==
===Errors===
* Although the back of the book says that it is the third of three books taking place in the Orange Islands, five more books following this one take place in the Orange Islands, adding up to a total of eight.
* This book follows the [[EP099|anime]] in naming the Ice-type Elite Four member "Prima". However, one instance near the end of the book refers to her by her original English name, [[Lorelei]]. 
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