A brainy girl's first crush — on a certain British royal — leads to unexpected discoveries about life, loss, love, and loyalty in this hilarious, poignant, award-winning novel set in modern Berlin. Nelly Sue Edelmeister knows exactly who she is: a skinny thirteen-year-old Berlin schoolgirl with thick glasses, a brain the size of the ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, and a brilliant career ahead in astronomy. But that's before she develops a hopeless crush on the handsome and newly bereaved Price William, future king of Great Britain. And it's definitely before she meets the odd but oddly attractive Maximilian Minsky — former New Yorker, full-out goth, and basketball ace — who is klutzy Nelly's last hope for making the school team before it heads off to Eton, England, and virtually into Prince William's arms. Meanwhile, Mom is pushing Nelly to do the bat mitzvah thing, and her parents are bickering day and night. Sometimes it seems like the no-nonsense Risa, their beloved, elderly family friend — a survivor of Germany's darker past — is the only one in the house who keeps Nelly sane. With pitch-perfect insight into adolescent angst and infatuation, family tensions, and the experience of being Jewish in contemporary Berlin, Holly-Jane Rahlens paints a humorous and surprisingly moving portrait of a determined heroine posed to charm young readers across the globe. Includes a glossary of foreign terms.

Prince William, Maximilian Minsky and Me

Rahlens, Holly-Jane

Children's Books

Candlewick

"Nelly’s voice rings true as she deals with friends, family, love, and religion. . . . This fast-paced work will grab readers from the start." — School Library Journal Nelly Sue Edelmeister knows exactly who she is: a skinny, brainy thirteen-year-old Berlin schoolgirl. But that’s before she develops a hopeless crush on a certain British royal. And it’s definitely before she meets the oddly attractive Maximilian Minsky, her last hope for making the basketball team before it heads off to England and she is virtually thrown into Prince William’s arms. Meanwhile, her parents’ bickering is stressing her out, as is her bat mitzvah looming ahead. Readers will relate to this funny, heartfelt tale of a determined teen as she makes some surprising discoveries about life, loss, love, and faith.

Prince William, Maximilian Minsky, and Me

Falling madly in love in the early 1970s with Ju+a5rgen Markovski, Becky Bernstein, a nice Jewish girl from Queens, accompanies him back to Germany, only to discover that her true love is not Ju+a5rgen, but rather his hometown of Berlin. A first novel.

Becky Bernstein Goes Berlin

Literature & Fiction

United States

Arcade Publishing

Mazel Tov in Las Vegas. Ein Hochzeitsroman.

Piper

Mauerblümchen

Rowohlt Taschenbuch

Prinz William, Maximilian Minsky und ich (rororo Rotfuchs)

Contemporary

Prinz William, Maximilian Minsky and Me.

Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verla

Max Minsky und ich

Blätterrauschen

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