01171cam a2200253 4500 419596138 TxAuBib 20200101120000.0 061113s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2006033944 9780618594443 (hardcover) 0618594442 (hardcover) (OCoLC)76183071 DLC DLC BAKER BTCTA ASC OUN TxAuBib Pinkwater, Daniel Manus, 1941- The Neddiad : how Neddie took the train, went to Hollywood, and saved civilization / written by Daniel Pinkwater. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007. 307 p. ; 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. 20200101. Turtles Juvenile fiction. Los Angeles (Calif) History 20th century Juvenile fiction. Humorous stories.