Bridge to Bat City

By Ernest Cline

A girl and bats fight to save their home from a mining threat.

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320 pages

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Thirteen-year-old Opal, grieving her mother, finds solace with music-loving bats on her uncle's farm. When a mining company threatens their home, Opal must lead the bats to Austin, facing fear and prejudice. Can they find acceptance in a city of music and eccentricity, or will they be forced to flee again? Courage and friendship are their only hope.

From the publisher

A National Bestseller! From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ernest Cline comes a mostly true tall tale about an unexpected friendship between a young girl and a music-loving colony of bats. Includes a beautiful map of Austin on the underside of the jacket! After losing her mother, thirteen-year-old Opal moves in with her uncle Roscoe on the family farm. There, Opal bonds with Uncle Roscoe over music and befriends a group of orphaned, music-loving bats. But just as the farm is starting to feel like home, the bats’ cave is destroyed by a big mining company with its sights set on the farmland next. If Opal and the bats can fit in anywhere, it’s the nearby city of Austin, home to their favorite music and a host of wonderfully eccentric characters. But with people afraid of the bats and determined to get rid of them, it’ll take a whole lot of courage to prove that this is where the bats–and Opal–belong.

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