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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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Powerful and heartbreaking. --Meg Cabot The Chosen One makes the heart race, the teeth grind, and the brow bead up in sweat. --Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked Absolutely riveting . . . a wonderful book. --Cynthia Kadohata, author of Kira-Kira Truly thought-provoking, heartfelt, and just a plain old good read. --An Na, author of A Step from Heaven Extraordinary . . . brave . . . a masterpiece. --Kathi Appelt, author of The Underneath Beautiful, compassionate, and full of hope. --Sara Zarr, author of Story of a Girl Writing young adult fiction is a tricky endeavor, for the reader walks a fine line between juvenile and adult worlds. A successful book of this genre must tread ever so carefully on the line that separates interesting and evocative from inappropriate. It must provoke thought without being overly explicit. No easy feat when the subject matter is polygamy. The Chosen One serves as a fine example of handlin

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