Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life<\/a> is an unusual book in many ways, but it’s a good one, and provides middle grade readers with an optimistic view of a world in which losses can be restored, old mistakes can be fixed, and there’s a happily ever after out there at the end of the road. Both poignant and touching and sometimes hilarious (I mean, Jeremy is a bit… weird. His sweat smells like peanut butter…!), this is a good quiet read for a rainy day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeremy Fink is a peanut-butter-aholic, a collector of weird shaped, mutant candy, and he’s afraid to ride public transportation. His best friend in a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,43,74,14,5],"class_list":["post-2498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adventure","tag-girls-fiction","tag-guy-appeal","tag-middle-grade","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4059,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions\/4059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Jeremy Fink is a peanut-butter-aholic, a collector of weird shaped, mutant candy, and he’s afraid to ride public transportation. His best friend in a kind of boss-her-around way is Lizzie, knows all about him, and she won’t stand for him staying the same forever. They’ve been each other’s best buddies since they were a year old, so when a month before his 13th birthday, Jeremy gets a gift from his father — who died five years before — that says it holds the meaning of life, who else but Lizzie would be a person to share the quest to find all the keys?<\/p>\n