This book is a middle school through high school book. Not for elementary students! The Chosen One is about Kyra, a girl who grows up in a polygamous community. Her father has three wives and she has over twenty siblings. They live in a secluded community where the leader's word is law.
Kyra loves her family but also grows to love a boy she wants to marry. When she finds out that she has been "chosen" to marry her uncle, she rebels.
Reading this book is like entering a foreign country. The lifestyle and morals of this community are not those to which we are accustomed. The hypocrisy is apparent: the leaders live in large homes with air conditioning while the others live in trailer homes with no air conditioning in the desert heat. The leaders have computers while the followers are told that computers are evil. The leaders have libraries while the followers are not allowed to read anything but the Bible.
I highly recommend this book.
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