Jeremy Heere And The Squip

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Who would not want a pill that altered how your brain works, also rumored to be a squip, that was meant to make the person who consumes it cooler than they have ever been? Jeremy Heere is informed about this pill, known as a squip, so he knows he needs to get his hands on one in order to become one of the “cool kids” because he is nerdy and shy.
Jeremy does whatever it takes to get a squip, which in his case he commits the crime of stealing and getting money from his aunt's Beanie Baby collection to acquire the $600 that it cost just to be cool. After stealing the money, the squip is embedded in his brain and as it says in the book, it is sending the message of him having to talk “as per rap-slash-hip-hop,” This refers to how it is the trend

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