Prince William, Maximilian Minsky, And Me - Couverture rigide

Rahlens, Holly-Jane

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0763627046 ISBN 13 : 9780763627041

Editeur : Candlewick Pr, 2005

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Book by Rahlens HollyJane

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Extrait

"The tryouts are for the basketball team. Not for the National Association of Nerds," Yvonne said.

"I heard," I said. "I'm not deaf." I bent down to tie my shoes.

"Maybe not deaf, but you sure are uncoordinated!" Caroline said.

"Tsk, tsk, Caroline," Yvonne said, shaking her head. "You're so unfair to poor Nelly. She has excellent coordination. Look, she can sit and tie her shoelaces at the same time."

The girls' laughter was drowned out by the sound of the bell for the next class. They picked up their things and scrambled away.

Peace.

I closed my eyes and waited for a beautiful starry sky to appear. Then I saw myself rise and float into its deep blackness. I soared higher and higher, on past one diamond of light to another. In the distance, I saw Prince William coming toward me, William in his three-piece, dark blue, pin-striped, cashmere-blend suit. He held out his hand and took me into his arms. As I put my head on his shoulder, my lips grazed the soft fuzz on the nape of his neck. My stomach felt funny. My lips tingled. We danced on and on, past my mother, astonished to see me, a graceful princess, with William, the price of princes. William spun me around and around, past Yvonne and Caroline and Nicole, all of them clearly envious, on past Pia and Anton, on past the entire student body.

Me, Nelly, William's chosen one.

I opened my eyes.

I'll show them, I thought. I'll show them all.

I stood up. Skinny. Klutzy. Knock-kneed. But determined. I had a goal in life. I was going to be a princess. But first, of course, I'd have to learn how to dribble.

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PRINCE WILLIAM, MAXIMILIAN MINSKY, AND ME by Holly-Jane Rahlens. Copyright (c) 2005 by Holly-Jane Rahlens. Published by Candlewick Press, Inc., Cambridge, MA.

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Candlewick Pr
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0763627046
• ISBN 13: 9780763627041
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 310
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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