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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, 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... read more

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"If I was going to kill the Prophet," I say, not even keeping my voice low, "I'd do it in Africa."

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  • Being Chosen: In Kyra's cult, husbands are chosen for girls, sometimes girls as young as the age of twelve. Men would always choose their wives, but often the Prophet would come to the girl and her family and tell them that God has given him a vision of the girl and the man that chose her getting married.

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This book is in Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Nominees 2013. (authoritative list)

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  1. Carol Lynch Williams (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
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Publication Date: May 12th 2009
ISBN: 0312555113
Page Count: 224

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Young Adults

Recommended 13 + for this novel. The idea is kind of a mature subject.

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