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Can I read Keep Sweet on EtoBox?
Keep Sweet by Michele Dominguez Greene is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Keep Sweet about?
<p><p>alva Jane Has Never Questioned Her Parents, Never Questioned Her Faith, Never Questioned Her Future. She 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-eight Siblings. This Is The Only World Alva Has Ever Known, And She Has Never Thought To Challenge It. <p>but Everything Changes When Alva Is Caught Giving Her Long-time Crush An Innocent First Kiss. Beaten, Scorned, And Now Facing A Forced Marriage To A Violent, Fifty-year Old Man, Alva Suddenly Realizes How Much She Has To Lose—and How Impossible It Will Be To Escape.</p><h3>publishers Weekly</h3><p>for Most Of The Women Inside Pine-ridge, An Isolated Compound Of Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints In Utah, Keeping Sweet (“obedience With A Willing And Happy Heart”) Is Their Ultimate Duty Before God. Underage Marriages, Strict Rules Of Conduct (unwavering Devotion To The Prophet, A Birth Every Year After Marriage, Seclusion From The Outside World), And A Polygamist Lifestyle Are Not Only Enforced, But Embraced. But When 14-year-old Alva Jane Is Caught Kissing A Boy She Hopes To Wed, A Vicious Beating And A
Who reads Keep Sweet?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Michele Dominguez Greene
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Children's Pub. Division
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781416986812
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Children'S, Fiction, Young Adult
- Rating
- 3.73 / 5 (983 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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