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The Chosen One
The Chosen One
The Chosen One
Carol Lynch Williams
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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Genre: 

  • Fiction
  • Romance

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
The Chosen One review by TKono
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TKono

"The Chosen One" by Carol Lynch Williams is a contemporary historical fiction book. It follows the story of a girl living in a polygamist society. Her way of life is described, along with her interactions among her family members. There is drama as the girl falls in love with a young boy. This is forbidden because she is supposed to marry an older man. Her adventure of leaving the polygamist colony and coming of age makes this book a must for young readers.

Rating:
3
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The Chosen One review by KMeng
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KMeng

Kyra lives in a sequestered community where the men have many wives and even more children. Her father alone has three wives and twenty one children. The Prophet of the community tells Kyra that she will marry her uncle (who is at least fifty years older than her). She is absolutely disgusted by this decree. As Kyra reads books that are forbidden in her community and begins to fall in love with a young boy that she is meeting in private, she realizes the wrong that her community does by forcing marriage.

Rating:
4
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