The Chosen One
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. That is, without questioning it much—if you don’t count her visits to the Ironton County Mobile Library on Wheels to read forbidden...
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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. That is, without questioning it much—if you don’t count her visits to the Ironton County Mobile Library on Wheels to read forbidden books, or her secret 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 Kyra must marry her sixty-year-old uncle—who already has six wives—she must make a desperate choice in the face of violence and her own fears of losing her family forever.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312627751 (0312627750)
Publish date: August 31st 2010
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Teen,
Book Club,
Realistic Fiction,
Romance,
Family,
Religion,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
Sociology,
Abuse
Do you want an escapist read? With fun dialog, rainbows, lovers with blue eyes and, preferably, a sixpack?Then don’t read this book. "In that moment, a whole line of men, older men went past in my head. Their mouths in O shapes, their eyes wandering like hands over some of us unmarried girls.”“... a...
Pro:Das Interessante an dem deutschen Cover ist, dass man das Gesicht des abgebildeten Mädchens nicht sieht - nur die etwas altmodische Kleidung, die gut zum Inhalt passt. Weniger zum Inhalt passt der Nagellack, denn die Heldin dieses Romans ist ein Mädchen, dem alles verboten ist, was schmückend is...
This is a haunting novel. Wow.
Whoever thought this was a good book for young adults/teens needs something, I don't know what. It is completely not a young adult/teen book. Maybe okay for High school students but anything less, absolutely not. The concepts and images depicted in this book are of a rough nature and hard for younge...
This book made me so sad and so angry. It’s a portrait of a community – the Chosen Ones, the laws within it and a 13-year old girl who wanted more, who dared to stand back. It made me so sad because it’s so real, there really are communities like this one out there. Some people are living like this....
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