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After losing her mother, thirteen-year-old Opal B. Flats moves in with her uncle Roscoe on the family farm. There, she 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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I don’t know who this book is for. It is written for a very young reader, but all the references are for a Gen Xer. I wanted to like it- the premise was solid but the execution was so bad. I also did the audiobook, and as a Texan born and raised (in West Texas, 90 miles from where the protagonist grows up)- that accent was so over the top it was tough to listen to it.