Awards

• Commended for Tayshas Reading 2010
• Commended for Utah Book Award (Young Adult) 2009
• Runner-up for Rhode Island Teen Book Award 2011
• Short-listed for Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Young Adult) 2011

Overview

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.

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<p> Fiction can offer emotional truth where other tools fail ....Williams, herself a Mormon, unveils life among the Chosen (a fictitious theocracy) with spare, evocative writing and an honest sense of character that helps bridge the rift between Kyra's world and ours.... The cinematic drama of [her life...is a means to reach a quieter truth, revealing that moment in childhood when you recognize your thoughts as your own and discover forces in the world that your parents cannot -- or will not -- protect you from. -- The New York Times Book Review ( Editor's Choice) <br> Williams strikes just the right balance between informative and cautionary in this gripping tale about a 13-year-old girl trapped in a polygamist cult....when she's chosen to be the seventh wife of her brutish, 60-something uncle, Kyra's desperation to be somewhere (or someone) else escalates ( God has given you to me, Kyra Leigh, her uncle tells her. You will do what He says. What the Prophet says. What I say ).

<p> Fiction can offer emotional truth where other tools fail &#8230;.Williams, herself a Mormon, unveils life among the Chosen (a fictitious theocracy) with spare, evocative writing and an honest sense of character that helps bridge the rift between Kyra&#8217;s world and ours&#8230;. The cinematic drama of [her life&#8230;is a means to reach a quieter truth, revealing that moment in childhood when you recognize your thoughts as your own and discover forces in the world that your parents cannot &#8212; or will not &#8212; protect you from. -- The New York Times Book Review ( Editor&#8217;s Choice) <br> Williams strikes just the right balance between informative and cautionary in this gripping tale about a 13-year-old girl trapped in a polygamist cult&#8230;.when she&#8217;s chosen to be the seventh wife of her brutish, 60-something uncle, Kyra&#8217;s desperation to be somewhere (or someone) else escalates ( God has given you to me, Kyra Leigh, her uncle tells her. You will do wha

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"Carol Lynch Williams is the author of young adult novels including Miles from Ordinary. The Chosen One was named one of 2010 ALA's ""Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers"" and ""Best Books for Young Adult Readers."" It also won the Whitney and the Association of Mormon Letters awards for the best young adult fiction of the year, as well as numerous other honors. Williams was the winner of the 2009 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship. She grew up in Florida and now lives in Utah."

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