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Jeremy Fink and the meaning of life

Just before his thirteenth birthday, Jeremy Fink receives a keyless locked box--set aside by his father before his death five years earlier--that purportedly contains the meaning of life.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mass, Wendy, 1967-
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Little, Brown, c2006.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Conduct of life > Juvenile fiction. Self-realization > Juvenile fiction. Fathers and sons > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	Just before his thirteenth birthday, Jeremy Fink receives a keyless locked box--set aside by his father before his death five years earlier--that purportedly contains the meaning of life.
Physical Description:	289 p. ; 22 cm.
Awards:	A Junior Library Guild selection.
ISBN:	0316058297 (hardcover) 9780316058292 (hardcover)
Author Notes:	Wendy Mass was born in Livingston, New Jersey on January 17, 1967. She received a B. A. in English from Tufts University. She worked as a book editor at numerous publishing houses in New York City and Connecticut and co-created a teenage literary magazine called Writes of Passage. She has written several nonfiction books for teenagers including Stonehenge, Readings on Night, John Cabot: Early Explorer, and Ray Bradbury: Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her fiction books include Leap Day, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall, Every Soul a Star, 11 Birthdays, Finally, and The Candymakers. A Mango-Shaped Space won the American Library Association Schneider Family Book Award in 2004. She wrote the storyline for an episode of the television show Monk, entitled "Mr. Monk Goes to the Theatre," which aired during the show's second season. (Bowker Author Biography)