The Neddiad

By Daniel Pinkwater format: children's hardcover publication: April 2001 ISBN: 9780618594443

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The old powers try to come back, and the planet is plunged into chaos, and civilization is destroyed, and it gets all violent and evil...the old legends tell that a hero...with the sacred turtle, always... Los Angeles, California. Neddie Wentworthstein is the guy with the turtle. Sandor Eucalyptus is the guy with the jellybean. Sholmos Bunyip wants the turtle...and he'll stop at nothing to get it. This is the story of how Neddie, three good friends, a shaman, a ghost, and a little maneuver known as the French substitution determine the fate of the world.

This is what you have been waiting for. This is the story of the evolution of creation, of boys and their refusing to stop dreaming big and of believing in the little guy because he may just turn out to be the centre of it all. It's the early 1940's and a young lad named Neddie Wentworthstein and his family impulsively decide to move across the country to Los Angeles. Up until then Ned and his friends and their older brothers and sisters had been spending their summer days acting out their favourite movies, radio plays and battles; The Three Musketeers, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Gettysburg, Iwo Jima. Setting their sights on new adventures Ned and his family climb aboard the deluxe Super Chief passenger train and leave Chicago. It's only when Ned is given a little turtle carved out of stone by a shaman named Melvin in Albuquerque, New Mexico and misses the train call in Flagstaff, Arizona that his real adventures begin. This novel is a real whizbanger of a roller coaster ride. Pinkwater calls on the best of his muses; Roald Dahl, Humphrey Bogart, Dick Tracy, Crazy Horse and that child in all of us that keeps that grain of possibility alive.

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