Lacey hopes that her mother's ghosts have finally been laid to rest after all, she seems so much better these days, and they really do need the money. Thirteen-year-old Lacey wakes to a beautiful summer morning excited to begin her new job at the library, just as her mother is supposed to start work at the grocery store. 'Imagine Anna Quindlen or Sue Miller turning her attention to writing a young adult novel, and you have an idea what has done for early teen readers…' -Audrey Couloumbis, author of the Newbery Honor Book Getting Close to Baby PLUS SPECIAL BONUS CONTENT: FIRST CHAPTER 'SNEAK PEEK' OF CAROL LYNCH WILLIAMS'S MILES FROM ORDINARY.

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.īut 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. 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. 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

The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams