The Yggyssey

A sequel to critically acclaimed THE NEDDIAD told from the point of view of Ned's friend, Iggy

La Brea Woman is missing. Valentino, too. The ghosts of Los Angeles are disappearing right and left!

Iggy Birnbaum is determined to get to the bottom of this mystery, no matter what Neddie Wentworthstein and Seamus Finn say.

There's just the little matter of traveling to another plane of existence, first...and then, of course, not pissing off a witch once she gets there.

From L.A. to Old New Hackensack, fans of The Neddiad will be delighted to join up with Iggy, Neddie, Seamus, and the usual apparitional entourage for another weird and wonderful adventure by Daniel Pinkwater. As Neil Gaiman said about the first book: "it's funny and tender and strange and impossible to describe. What Pinkwater does is magic and I'm grateful for it."

THE YGGYSSEY is vintage Pinkwater: laugh out loud funny, incredible characters, dialogue, humor. And like THE NEDDIAD, this book will be similarly illustrated throughout by Calef Brown.

Author: Daniel Pinkwater
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 05/03/2010
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.64h x 5.82w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780547328652

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.7
Point Value: 6
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 128120 / Yggyssey: How Iggy Wondered What Happened to All the Ghosts, Found Out Where They Went, and Went the

Award: Massachusetts Children's Book Award - Nominee

About the Author

Daniel Pinkwater is crazy about writing, and has been trying to learn how to do it for fifty years. He has written about a hundred books, all but two or three of them good. People who own radios may know Daniel Pinkwater as a popular commentator and children's book reviewer on National Public Radio. At one time, he lived in Los Angeles, went to a fancy private school with the children of movie stars, and ate in The Hat numerous times. He lives with his wife, the illustrator and novelist Jill Pinkwater, and several dogs and cats in a very old farmhouse in New York's Hudson River Valley.