{"id":1547,"date":"2012-11-19T21:19:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T21:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2019-04-04T15:51:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T15:51:01","slug":"the-chosen-one-a-novel-by-carol-lynch-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1547","title":{"rendered":"The Chosen One: A Novel by Carol Lynch Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kyra is 13 years old and has never known life outside of the compound.\u00a0 Her family belongs to a strict, polygamous, religious cult where the men take on many wives, and the women are considered property \u2014 first of their fathers, and then of their husbands.\u00a0 Kyra\u2019s father has three wives and 21 children (soon to be 23), and Kyra is of an age where she is about to be promised to a man.\u00a0 Back when the group first settled in this location, the girls were matched with boys only a few years older.\u00a0 Now, it seems like all of the girls are being given to the older men \u2014 and Kyra is horrified to find out that the Prophet has matched her with her own uncle, who already has six wives.\u00a0 She has accepted most of what she has been told her whole life, but things are getting less and less palatable by the day.\u00a0 Will she be able to change the Prophet\u2019s mind?\u00a0 Will she run away?\u00a0 Or will she have to marry her uncle, an awful prospect even if he wasn\u2019t so closely related, and obey his every command? If you find this book interesting, you might also want to read Sister Wife<\/a> by Shelley Hrdlitschka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kyra is 13 years old and has never known life outside of the compound.\u00a0 Her family belongs to a strict, polygamous, religious cult where the men take on many wives, and the women are considered property \u2014 first of their fathers, and then of their husbands.\u00a0 Kyra\u2019s father has three wives and 21 children (soon … Continue reading The Chosen One: A Novel by Carol Lynch Williams<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}