Article: Rahlens, Holly-Jane. Prince William, Maximilian Minsky, and me.(Young adult review)(Book review)

RAHLENS, Holly-Jane. Prince William, Maximilian Minsky, and me. Candlewick. 310p. c2002.978-0-7636-3299-1. $7.99. J

13-year-old Nelly Sue Edelmeister's life in Berlin is fairly uneventful. She always has her nose in a book--she refers to herself as an "overachieving jerk"--and spends an inordinate amount of time contemplating the universe. Ostracized at school, Nelly chooses to focus on her career goal of becoming a cosmologist. Lately, her parents have been behaving in ways that force her to pull her head out of the sky and deal with the reality that their marriage is dissolving. Her mother puts all of her energy into planning Nelly's bat mitzvah, something ...

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