{"product_id":"9781429984546","title":"The Chosen One","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarol Lynch Willams' \u003ci\u003eThe Chosen One\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThirteen-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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePLUS SPECIAL BONUS CONTENT: FIRST CHAPTER \"SNEAK PEEK\" OF CAROL LYNCH WILLIAMS'S \u003ci\u003eMILES FROM ORDINARY.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Imagine Anna Quindlen or Sue Miller turning her attention to writing a young adult novel, and you have an idea what [Williams] has done for early teen readers…\" --Audrey Couloumbis, author of the Newbery Honor Book \u003ci\u003eGetting Close to Baby\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThirteen-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. Lacey hopes that her mother's ghosts have finally been laid to rest; after all, she \u003ci\u003eseems \u003c\/i\u003eso much better these days, and they really do need the money. But as the hours tick by and memories come flooding back, a day full of hope spins terrifyingly out of control....\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"No one can get inside the head and heart of a 13-year-old girl better than Carol Lynch Williams, and I mean no one,\" said James S. Jacobs, Professor of Children's Literature at Brigham Young University, of her breakout novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Chosen One.\u003c\/i\u003e Now this award-winning YA author brings us an equally gripping story of a girl who loves her mother, but must face the truth of what life with that mother means for both of them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141847073008,"sku":"9781429984546","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429984546_p0.jpg?v=1769903968","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429984546","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}