The Chosen One
“Powerful and unforgettable…will break your hear.“
David Ebershoff, New York Times bestselling author
Winner of Parents' Choice Award Winner, 2009
Among longlisted titles for YALSA Amazing Audiobooks, 2010
Among longlisted titles for ALSC Notable Children's Recordings, 2010
Winner of Audie Award Winner, 2010
Winner of Parents' Choice Award Winner, 2009
Among longlisted titles for YALSA Amazing Audiobooks, 2010
Among longlisted titles for ALSC Notable Children's Recordings, 2010
Winner of Audie Award Winner, 2010
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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