num_pages: 244
description: In the year 2054 after decades of gender selection India now has a ratio of five boys for every girl making women an incredibly valuable commodity. Tired of marrying off their daughters to the highest bidder and determined to finally make marriage fair the women who form the country of Koyanagar have instituted a series of tests so that every boy has the chance to win a wife.Sudasa doesnt want to be a wife and Contestant Five a boy forced to compete in the test to become her husband has other plans as well. Sudasas family wants nothing more than for their daughter to do the right thing and pick a husband who will keep her comfortableand caged. Fives family wants him to escape by failing the tests. As the tests advance Sudasa and Five thwart each other at every turn until they slowly realize that they just might want the same thing.Told from alternating points of viewSudasas in verse and Contestant Fives in proseallowing readers to experience both characters pain and their brave struggle for hope.
language: English
title: 5 to 1
publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers