LARGE PRINT Katie Troyer's older brothers and sisters married Amish, and joined the church in Holmes County, Ohio. But Katie chaffed at the rules. She felt out of place. Why had she even been born into this strange family? Katie hid an English dictionary under her mattress to prepare for the day she turned sixteen when she planned to move in with her worldly cousin, Autumn, in Pennsylvania . She'd attend college and read "worldly" books. But repeated nightmares interrupted her modern world and she decided to travel to Queen Anne's England in search of answers from a more distant past.

The First Amish Timetraveler. Katie Troyer felt out of place in her Amish community. She just wanted to enter the English world as soon as she turned 16. It took again as long for her to enter Queen Ann's England and find out why she'd been Born Amish.

In 1983 Kay English visited the homeland of Menno Simons, the contemporary converted Catholic priest and father of the Mennonites and Amish who published his pacifist pamphlets. "God's kingdom is in our hearts," he wrote. She saw through time to the elders of Muenster who threw Brother Menno's letters into the fire and build a great wall to keep sin and heresy from their great city in order to issue in the second coming of Christ. Kay decided that Menno Simons had been a man of great vision. Why had some of his followers frozen their lives in The Olt German Way? And what about the Amish man...