# Ernest Cline: Becoming Best Friends with a Bat Colony

In this mostly-true story, Ernest Cline introduces us to Opal, a girl who befriends a colony of bats. When their habitat is destroyed, what will she do to help find a place where they will all be welcomed and protected? Learn all about “The Bridge to Bat City” in this conversation with Cline and Jennifer Harbster at the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2024
- Runtime: 32 min
- By: Harbster, Jennifer
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/video-10212/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/loc/video-10212?play=1)