• Bridge to Bat City

  • By: Ernest Cline
  • Narrated by: Felicia Day
  • Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (29 ratings)

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Bridge to Bat City

By: Ernest Cline
Narrated by: Felicia Day
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Publisher's summary

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.

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.

©2024 Ernest Cline (P)2024 Little, Brown Young Readers

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good, cool semi true story

I liked it, the reader was awesome. The story was not as good as his other books, but it being semi true made it really cool.

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Enjoyable story

This is a very enjoyable story that made for fun listening during drives to and at camp! It is also wonderfully narrated.

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Not the norm

I am a big fan of Cline, however this book is way out of the norm for his type of books. I was really looking forward to a science fiction book but this book didn't deliver on that. It is a very good book that I finished in a day but it just wasn't what I expected. Ernest Cline, can we have more books like RP1 and Armada?

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not what I expected but it's ok

just a fun tall tale about a kid with special powers in Texas. no ready player one type stuff other than all the music refrences and MOJO. you'll know if you read. enjoy.

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Another Home Run

Being born in Austin this story held many memory triggers for me. I found myself tearing up several times throughout the listen.

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Charming Urban Fable

Charming Fable set in the mythic 1980's Austin, Texas. Captures the laid back, engaging weirdness of the time and place. Great reader. Love the adventurous lead character: Opal.

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Breathtakingly bland

I struggled through the extended Encyclopedia Britannica-esque chapter 01 diatribe about the Mexican bat, holding out hope it would get better as the book went on. Chapter 02 was about a plain girl, in a plain family living in the flattest portion of Texas only to move south to the Hill Country with her uncle. I did not make it to Chapter 03.

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Narrator great!! Feel good story Got to visit Austen and eat barbecue and listen to music …I now love bats ….

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WONDERFUL!

What a great tall tale! I am a great lover of music, and as such, I have watched ACL and thought about visiting Austin for years. Now, because of this book, I really want to go to Austin, take in some shows, and groove with the bats at sunset. Thank you, sir!

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Bland as Sand

There’s nothing much to it, with just a smidge of fun, but oh how I pine for the days of Ready Player One.

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