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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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<p> [Lamia's] powerful performance of THE CHOSEN ONE brings its 13-year-old protagonist to vivid life. - AudioFile <p>&#8220;With dramatic pauses and emotive voice, Jenna Lamia delivers a captivating read, making the listener yearn for more.&#8221; - Parents' Choice Awards, Parents' Choice 2009 Recommended Award Winner Narrator Jenna Lamia brings passion and dignity to Kyra, her sisters, and even the strict elders who want all the girls for themselves...Lamia's voices sounds believably young and brings surprising gravity to this ripped-from-the-headlines story. - AudioFile &#160; Jenna Lamia strikes just the right note between innocence and a growing sense of rebellion in her characterization of Kyra... -- Kirkus Reviews &#160; Narrator Jenna Lamia's searing, poignant performance will stay with listeners long after the book ends as she draws listeners in and never lets go, making them feel as if Kyra is living with them as they hear her story...Outstanding. - Sound Commentary

<p> [Lamia's] powerful performance of THE CHOSEN ONE brings its 13-year-old protagonist to vivid life. - AudioFile <p> With dramatic pauses and emotive voice, Jenna Lamia delivers a captivating read, making the listener yearn for more. - Parents' Choice Awards, Parents' Choice 2009 Recommended Award Winner Narrator Jenna Lamia brings passion and dignity to Kyra, her sisters, and even the strict elders who want all the girls for themselves...Lamia's voices sounds believably young and brings surprising gravity to this ripped-from-the-headlines story. - AudioFile Jenna Lamia strikes just the right note between innocence and a growing sense of rebellion in her characterization of Kyra... -- Kirkus Reviews Narrator Jenna Lamia's searing, poignant performance will stay with listeners long after the book ends as she draws listeners in and never lets go, making them feel as if Kyra is living with them as they hear her story...Outstanding. - Sound Commentary From the opening of The Chosen One, the audiobook for which she won her recent Audie, listeners will identify with Jenna's well-rounded portrayal of the protagonist, Kyra, a young woman trapped in a cult. - AudioFile Jenna Lamia...does a pitch-perfect version of Kyra. --Kidlit.com Jenna Lamia's vocal interpretation pitches just the right tone for a dutiful but independent 13-year-old chafing against the rules that allow her no privacy - a conflict any teenager can understand. - Newsday The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams captivated me frm the moment I started listening to it. If you have tweens or teens in your house, the audiobook would be a perfect way to while away a few hours on a roadtrip, or to enjoy as a family in the evenings as an alternative to the boob tube. - 5minutesforbooks.com The reading of the unabridged audiobook by Jenna Lamia is dramatically right. - Metapsychology Jenna Lamia brings the perfect tone and emotions to thirteen-year-old Kyra and enables the listener

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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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