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1) Weetzie Bat
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Series
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English
Description
Follows the wild adventures of Weetzie Bat and her Los Angeles friends, Dirk, Duck, and My-Secret-Agent-Lover-Man.
3) Vampire bats
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Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
24 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 24 cm.
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English
Description
An introduction to the vampire bat, best known for its diet which consists of the blood of other animals.
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English
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The Weetzie Bat series, by acclaimed author Francesca Lia Block, was listed among NPR's 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels. This collection brings together the five luminous novels of the series: Weetzie Bat, Witch Baby, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys, Missing Angel Juan, and Baby Be-Bop. Spinning a saga of interwoven lives and beating hearts, these postmodern fairy tales take us to a Los Angeles brimming with magical realism: a place where life is a mystery,...
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Where were the kisses? Weetzie Bat wondered. And so begins a magical journey of discovery. As she turns forty and the relationship with her secret-agent lover-man Max falls apart, Weetzie packs up her lime green and bright orange bikini, orange suede sneakers, and Pucci tunic, jumps in her '65 mint green Thunderbird, and leaves. Weetzie finds herself at the enchanted pink hotel in sparkling Los Angeles, where she once shied away from a kiss that may...
10) Witch Baby
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English
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Once upon a time in the city of Shangri-L. A. , someone left a baby on a doorstep. She had wild, dark hair and purple eyes and looked at the world in a special way. The family that took her in called her Witch Baby and raised her as their own. But even though she tried to fit in, Witch Baby never felt as though she truly belonged. So one day she packed her bat-shaped backpack, put her black cowboy-boot roller skates, and went out into the real world...
11) Baby Be-Bop
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English
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Dirk MacDonald, a sixteen-year-old boy living in Los Angeles, comes to terms with being gay after he receives surreal storytelling visitations from his dead father and great-grandmother.
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Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
120 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
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English
Description
The mummy of King Tut's grandmother is the main attraction at the Fogville museum, but Echo the bat and his human friends, the Bat Pack, discover that at night she is rising from her sarcophagus--can they find a way to bring peace to this restless mummy?
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English
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Pink Smog, the long-awaited prequel to Francesca Lia Block's groundbreaking novel Weetzie Bat, was praised as "an intoxicating mix of mystery, fantasy, and romance" by ALA Booklist in a starred review. Weetzie Bat is one of the seminal young adult novels of the '90s and continues to be an iconic treasure for teens everywhere. Now Pink Smog reintroduces a whole new generation to the eponymous Weetzie Bat-before she was Weetzie. Against the backdrop...
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Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
120 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the lake in one of Fogville's parks suddenly becomes polluted and starts to boil, Echo the bat and his human friends, the Bat Pack, venture into the sewers to find the monster that may be causing the problem.
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She's a brilliant alchemist – with a talent for solving mysteries. Miriam bat Isaac is a budding scholar in first-century CE Alexandria, though her dreams seem doomed. Who in her household or among her father's Shabbat guests stole the scrolls containing the Alchemical League's valuable formulas? Perhaps the thief was even her frantic father, on the cusp of financial ruin, eager for Miriam to end her dalliance with a handsome jeweler and marry into...
19) Bats in the band
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English
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When the weather warms up, bats take advantage of an empty theater to stage a concert.
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English
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Help Biggety Bat find a friend!
As the sun went down in the west, a bat named Biggety left his nest.Biggety Bat is looking for a new friend. Who will it be? The snowy egret scooping up fish? The mama possum bearing babies on her back? The mockingbird singing so sweet?Ann Ingalls blends lyrical text with information about a real-life urban bat colony in Austin, Texas. Readers will love discovering this unique habitat as they help Biggity Bat find...
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