{"product_id":"the-chosen-one-9780312627751","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\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarol Lynch Williams\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of young adult novels including \u003ci\u003eMiles from Ordinary\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe Chosen One\u003c\/i\u003e was named one of 2010 ALA's Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers and Best Books for Young Adult Readers. It also won the Whitney and the Association of Mormon Letters awards for the best young adult fiction of the year, as well as numerous other honors. Williams was the winner of the 2009 PEN\/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship. She grew up in Florida and now lives in Utah.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Griffin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50719071731986,"sku":"9780312627751","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5750e6c3-2cdd-40ad-a198-37c3620b348f.jpg?v=1734657699","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-chosen-one-9780312627751","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}