Megabat
Anna Humphrey, illustrated by Kass Reich
Daniel Misumi has just moved to a new house. It's big and old and far away from his friends and his life before. AND it's haunted... or is it?
Megabat was just napping on a papaya one day when he was stuffed in a box and shipped halfway across the world. Now he's living in an old house far from home, feeling sorry for himself and accidentally scaring the people who live there.
Daniel realizes it's not a ghost in his new house. It's a bat. And he can talk. And he's actually kind of cute.
Megabat realizes that not every human wants to whack him with a broom. This one shares his smooshfruit.
Add some buttermelon, juice boxes, a lightsaber and a common enemy and you've got a new friendship in the making! (From Tundra Books)
From the book
Daniel Misumi hated his new house. He hated the vines that crept up the redbrick and the way the peaks over the upstairs windows looked like angry eyebrows. He hated the creaky floors and the weird wallpaper… but most of all, he hated his new attic bedroom—especially when he discovered a ghostly creature was living there.
Daniel's first clue about the creature was the mysterious puddle at the top of the stairs.
"Oof!" he said, landing on his bum. It was moving day, and he'd been carrying a box of Lego. Pieces crashed to the floor and skittered under the furniture like beetles afraid of the light.
Daniel stood up and examined his wet shorts. "Mom!" he called. "There's a puddle on my floor!"
Daniel found his mom in the bathroom. She was busy unpacking her bottles of relaxing bubble bath. "Just what we need." She sighed. "A leak in the roof on our first day."
Daniel's father was summoned. He made grim faces at the ceiling and said things like "Welllllll…" and "Let's see…" but no hole or crack was discovered.
"Maybe it's not water," Daniel said as they mopped up the puddle. "It could be corrosive liquid leaking from a rusty pipe." In such an old house, he wouldn't have been surprised.
Daniel eyed the ceiling suspiciously, but his dad just said they'd deal with it later.
So Daniel tried to put the puddle out of his mind, but later that night, when he was drifting off to sleep…
"Gots buttermelons? Hmmm?"
His eyes shot open.
From Megabat by Anna Humphrey ©2018, illustrated by Kass Reich. Published by Tundra Books.
