Book Description
for Prince William, Maximilian Minsky, & Me by Holly-Jane Rahlens
From The United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY)
Nelly Sue Edelmeister is a skinny, thirteen-year-old, astronomy-loving nerd. She lives in Berlin with her overbearing Jewish American mother, her understanding Christian German father, and her wise substitute grand mother. She has a hopeless crush on Prince William, heir to the British throne, and she is determined to learn basketball so she can go with her school team to Great Britain and meet William. This well-crafted story, written in the first person, is filled with humor, emotion, and colorful char acters and gives readers insight into being a Jewish teenager in contemporary Berlin. Includes a glossary of foreign terms. Sydney Taylor Honor Book Award, Deutcher Jugendliteraturpreis. mjw
Originally published as Prinz William, Maximilian Minsky und Ich in German by RowohltTaschenbuchVerlag Germany, in 2002.