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Thirteen-year-old Kyra has grown up in an isolated polygamous community without questioning her father's three wives and her twenty brothers and sisters. Or at least 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 the boy she hopes to choose for herself instead of having a man chosen for her. But when the Prophet decrees that Kyra must marry her 60-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.
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Carol Lynch Williams
Carol Lynch Williams, who grew up in Florida and now lives in Utah, is an award-winning novelist with five daughters of her own. She has an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College. She won the prestigious PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship for her novel GLIMPSE and was nominated for the PEN for her book THE TRUE COLORS OF CAITLYNNE JACKSON. THE CHOSEN ONE was named one of the ALA's Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers and Best Books for Young Adult Readers.Her books have been featured on numerous lists of recommended YA fiction. Carol's other novels include MILES FROM ORDINARY, THE HAVEN, WAITING, SIGNED-SKYE HARPER, MESSENGER, ONCE I WAS A BEEHIVE, NEVER SAID, NEVER THAT FAR, PRETTY LIKE US as well as 15 more books for young readers.?The best thing she has ever done, and what she is most proud of, is raising her five daughters.
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