The Neddiad : how Neddie took the train, went to Hollywood, and saved civilization /
by Daniel Pinkwater. ; ill. by Calef Brown.
- Boston, MA : Houghton, 2007.
- 307 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
When shoelace heir Neddie Wentworthstein and his family take the train from Chicago to Los Angeles in the 1940s, he winds up in possession of a valuable Indian turtle artifact whose owner is supposed to be able to prevent the impending destruction of the world, but he is not sure exactly how.