Chosen One (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780312627751)

Carol Lynch Willams' The Chosen One is a dazzling novel about a young teenager's rebellion from the polygamist cult that would have her become the seventh wife to her 60-year-old uncle

Thirteen-year-old Kyra has grown up in an isolated community without questioning the fact that her father has three wives and she has twenty brothers and sisters, with two more on the way. That is, without questioning them much---if you don't count her secret visits to the Mobile Library on Wheels to read forbidden books, or her meetings with Joshua, the boy she hopes to choose for herself instead of having a man chosen for her.

But when the Prophet decrees that she must marry her sixty-year-old uncle---who already has six wives---Kyra must make a desperate choice in the face of violence and her own fears of losing her family forever.

Author: Carol Lynch Williams
ISBN-10: 0312627750
ISBN-13: 9780312627751
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Language: English
Published: 08/31/2010
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.66h x 5.32w x 0.63d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.3
Point Value: 6
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 130671 / Chosen One


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 11/15/2010 pg. 24