Bats in Trouble by Pamela McDowell

Author:Pamela McDowell
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781459814059
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2017-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

The girls sprinted through the rain. They had almost reached the hay shed when the rain turned to chunks of ice. The hail pummeled them, bouncing off their shoulders and heads.

“Ouch!” Shilo tried to cover her head with her arms as she ran. Cooper streaked ahead to the shed.

Cricket pulled open the wooden door. It was dark and musty inside the shed. She stepped in, then turned around. Shilo was frozen in the doorway.

“Come on, Shilo!” Cricket yelled. Hailstones pounded on the roof of the shed. The roar got louder. The hail dropped like a curtain of ice.

Shilo yelped and jumped inside.

Cricket closed the door partway to block the wind. She shook her hair, and bits of ice went flying into the darkness. She wiped her face with her sleeve.

Shilo knelt down to brush bits of ice from Cooper’s fur. She looked up at Cricket and her eyes widened. Her mouth dropped open.

“What?” Cricket’s voice was drowned out by the noise of the hail on the shed roof. Shilo pointed over her shoulder.

Cricket looked up. Hundreds of eyes looked back at her. She gasped and dropped to the floor beside Shilo and Cooper.

Bats! Hundreds of bats hung from the rafters of the shed. They were all wide-awake, watching the girls and shifting restlessly. But none of them flew away. None of them attacked.

Shilo slowly reached out to grab Cricket’s hand. She was trembling. It was hard not to panic, stuck in the dark with hundreds of bats!

Cricket squeezed her hand and pulled her over to the wall. The girls sat there, listening to the storm. Cooper sat next to Shilo and leaned against her, panting.

Cricket watched the bats watching her. They’re so small, she thought, and brown. She studied them more closely. Where was the yellow marking? Why were these bats completely brown?

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