Holly-Jane Rahlens

"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 JOURNALNelly 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 …

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.