Story Description:
Baker Publishing
Group|June 1, 2013|Trade Paperback|ISBN: 978-0-8007-2225-8
Katrina Yoder
loves to sing, but her Amish parents view singing as vainglory and a sin. Katrina’s best friend, Bekka is convinced
Katrina should try out for American Star, a televised singing competition that
Bekka has been secretly watching.
Katrina resists the temptation until her father’s health worsens. He desperately needs a surgery the family
cannot afford. Katrina decides she must
go against her parents’ wishes to win the money needed to help her father. But how will she handle herself as an Amish
teenager out in the world?
Teen girls will be
swept into the excitement as Katrina ventures out of her quiet Amish world to
become a reality television star. Will
she be successful? And will she be
accepted back into her community when it’s over?
My Review:
Kristina Yoder has
the voice of an angel and she loves to sing but her strict Amish community
forbids singing as vainglory so she must keep a cap on her voice which is
difficult for her. They do have Saturday
night singings where teens on their rumspringa can tests the waters of the
English world without trouble from their parents or community, so Katrina was
able to sing to her hearts content.
Her best friend
Bekka had been secretly watching a television show called American Star on her
computer where people between the ages of 18 and 30 competed to win big sums of
money for their singing voices. She knew
Katrina could win hands down.
Bekka approaches
Kristina about the popular television show but Katrina isn’t sure she wants to
push her family that far, but then realizes how sick her Dad is and that the
money would pay for the surgery he most desperately needs. She prayed about it, thought about it, and
talked to her Aunt Alma about it and finally decided that she would do it. Bekka helped her sign up on the computer and
before she knew it she was on her way to Cleveland for the first portion of the
show.
However, once
there she didn’t realize that she’d be expected to dress differently, have her
hair styled differently, wear make-up and such and had to do some deep soul
searching to decide whether she could give up what she truly believed in for a
television show.
A Simple Song was a beautifully written
story that showed the courage, strength and maturity of one young girl who had
a gift to share with the world and found a way to share it without compromising
everything else she believed in. Just
beautiful!!
I would like to
say a big thank-you to Graf-Martin for sending me this copy!
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