![]() ![]() The two friends set a goal to find the keys by the end of the summer so Jeremy can still open the box on his thirteenth birthday. Determined to open the box, Jeremy and Lizzy contact a locksmith who explains that he is unable to pick the locks or break the box open without destroying the box and possibly its contents. An accompanying note explains that the friend taking care of the box lost all of the keys. Inside the package, they discover a wooden box with four keyholes and the words, "THE MEANING OF LIFE: FOR JEREMY FINK TO OPEN ON HIS 13TH BIRTHDAY." Jeremy immediately recognizes the box as the work of his father, who died five years earlier in a car crash. One month before his thirteenth birthday, Jeremy Fink and his best friend Lizzy Muldoun were out in his New York City apartment when the mailman delivers a package addressed to Jeremy's mom. ![]() Writer/director Tamar Halpern adapted the book and directed along with Jamar Crawford. The novel contains information that provides a connection to Every Soul a Star, a children's novel also by Wendy Mass.Īn independent film adaptation of the novel, starring Maxwell Beer as Jeremy Fink and Ryan Simpkins as Lizzy Muldoun, was released in 2012. The story follows twelve-year-old Jeremy Fink and his neighbor Lizzy Muldoun as they attempt to retrieve four keys that unlock a wooden box delivered one month before Jeremy's 13th birthday. ![]() Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life is a 2006 children's novel by Wendy Mass. ![]()
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