Although the situation is gruesome, it is a story told with much sensitivity and no sensationalism. Reading these forbidden books gives her insight about the outside world. For weeks, Kyra has risked her safety by secretly visiting the Mobile Library on Wheels. Even to read a novel or a picture book is forbidden and could result in a beating, or worse. But if she escapes the compound and walks out into the desert, she could certainly risk death. Violence is a constant threat within the compound walls. Kyra was raised to believe that her only chance at heaven is to marry the man that the Prophet decrees for her and to have children with him&even if he is cruel, old, and her uncle. She loves her twenty sisters and brothers, her sickly mother, and she also loves a teenage boy whom she had hoped to choose one daybut to love someone and hope to marry him is a taboo thought. But when the Prophet decrees that she must marry her sixty-year-old unclewho already has six wivesKyra is faced with a desperate choice between family or freedom. Growing up in an isolated community, thirteen-year-old Kyra has never questioned her familys beliefs or the fact that her father has multiple wives. This powerful book grabs you from the first sentence and quickly makes you fall in love with the courageous main character.
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