Keep sweet

By Michele Greene

Subjects: Mormons, Coming of age, Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Fiction, Bildungsromans, Juvenile fiction, Polygamy

Description: Alva, not quite fifteen, is content with the strict rules that define her life in Pineridge, the walled community where she lives with her father, his seven wives, and her twenty-nine siblings until she is caught giving her long-time crush an innocent first kiss and forced to marry a violent, fifty-year-old man.