Title: Keep sweet
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.
Subjects: Coming of age, Fiction, Mormons, Polygamy, Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Bildungsromans, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Mormons and mormonism, fiction