Barnes and Noble has stated that a Dragonball junior novel is currently being written by Stacia Deutsch and Rhody Cohon. The book will be based on the upcoming Dragonball film written by Ben Ramsey and James Wong. It will be entitled “Dragon Ball : The Junior Novel” and will consist of 152 pages. It will be published by VIZ Media and has a set release date of February 2009.

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It seems promotion has started to officialy begin. First IGN posts their high quality version of promo pics and now a report that a book based on the Dragonball movie is being written. So keep a look out for official teaser trailers and probably some kind of preview for a movie based video game. Not to mention more high quality Dragonball movie promo pictures! Stay tuned.

UPDATE : Borders is showing that there are three more DB movie books aside from Dragon Ball The Novel. They are called…

- The Battle
- The Search
- The Discovery

Update 2 : Amazon has posted the basic description for the novel.

Collect all seven Dragon Balls and you can wish for whatever you want!

Goku thought he was a normal high school student until he found out he’s actually a martial-arts whiz with all kinds of powers. Now he and his fellow teen warriors are on a quest to find all the Dragon Balls before they fall into the wrong hands. But they may already have! Goku must battle the evil Piccolo with all he’s got to save the planet Earth!

All four books are available for pre-order!