A Simple Song: Christian fiction book review

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    When selecting a book for teen age girls to read, Melody Carlson is always an excellent author choice.  Her newest book, A Simple Song, certainly will be one you and your teen will not want to miss.

    Katrina is a young Amish girl, who discovers there is much about her Mammi that she never knew.  Katrina has always loved to sing, and had been told that she had a beautiful voice. But, because she is Amish, she isn’t permitted to call attention to herself with her singing, so she sings just when she is alone when outside working around the farm.  Then her Mammi dies, and she is given a wooden chest that has been nailed shut.  What that chest contains leads her to audition for a television show.  Not very Amish! 
   
    However, there is a very important lesson she must learn, and this is a way she can help her Daed when no one else can.  How will this sheltered Amish girl get along in, of all places, Hollywood?  Could this be where God wants her to be?  What about the gift from her grandmother?  Could this very unusual gift be the means to help her family in a serious financial crisis?  The answers to these questions provide the reader with some guidelines to make their own decisions more Christ-centered.

I am certain that you will enjoy A Simple Song as much as I did.  Melody Carson is an awesome author that leaves me glad to have read her new books!

    My husband Chris and I live in a cabin-style home next to the National Forest in the beautiful Cascade Mountain area of the Pacific Northwest. Our two grown sons and granddaughter live nearby and we try to see them as often as we can. We also have two “re-homed” pets to make life more interesting—our yellow Labrador retriever Audrey and a Maine coon cat named Harry.

     My writing studio is in a separate building next to our courtyard (a garden area that’s off limits to the voracious deer). The window behind my desk looks out into the ponderosa pine forest, where I see deer, squirrels, rabbits, and an occasional raccoon. The other windows in my office overlook the courtyard which is frequented by numerous hummingbirds in the summertime—one August evening we counted nearly fifty of the little hummers.

I received one copy of A Simple Song from Revell Books in exchange for my honest review of this book.  No other compensation was provided.  Additionally, you may notice affiliate links contained within this review.

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