“Fourth Wing”
Fiction: “Fourth Wing” by Rebecca Yarros
Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general– also known as her tough-as-talons mother– has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away…because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.
Nonfiction: “King: A Life” by Jonathan Elig
Jonathan Eig’s “King: A Life” is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.— and the first to include recently-declassified FBI files. The biographer gives an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself. He casts fresh light on the King family’s origins as well as MLK’s complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists. King reveals a minister wrestling with his own human frailties and dark moods, a citizen hunted by his own government, and a man determined to fight for justice even if it proved to be a fight to the death. As he follows MLK from the classroom to the pulpit to the streets of Birmingham, Selma, and Memphis, Eig dramatically re-creates the journey of a man who recast American race relations and became our only modern-day founding father—as well as the nation’s most mourned martyr.
Youth: “The Nature Journal: A Backyard Adventure” by Savannah Allen
Connecting with his busy dad over their love of nature, Tim goes through his dad’s old nature journals, which inspire him to go on adventures of his own and record all the things he finds to share with his dad.
