![]() ![]() ![]() These cannibalistic monsters want to manipulate Shade into leading them to his colony so they can feast on the hibernating silverwings all winter, then fly back to their rainforest. ![]() But he just keeps getting into trouble instead–first, inadvertently triggering the wrath of the owls, who burn his whole colony out of their ancient hollow tree trunk (imagine, owls armed with fire!), then getting blown off course during the colony’s migration and being left behind for dead.īut after befriending a lonely brightwing bat named Marina, Shade (who thinks of himself as a bat of destiny) proves to be the hero of a very hairraising adventure in which he is threatened by pigeons, owls, wolves, rats, and (worst of all) two giant vampire bats escaped from a sort of zoo. Shade resents being smaller and weaker than the other little baby bats and wants to prove himself. Now, when you think of bats–not baseball bats, but the little leathery winged things that flap around in the night–I’m sure you don’t think to yourself, “Oooh, how cute!” But amazingly, Oppel manages to make friends between you, the reader, and his hero, a runty silverwing bat named Shade. ![]()
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