The Palace is old and sad. The people fear it. Every year, one citizen is chosen by lottery to enter its walls, something the town has always done as long as anyone can remember. No one knows what would happen if their lottery ended. No one wants to find out. And so, once again, a name is drawn. This time it reads: Laurel.This book in one in a growing collection of Relevant Reads, stories that are "easy to read and hard to put down." This new genre...