Ready Player One author Ernest Cline is making his kid lit debut.
. The Austin author has just announced the release date for his debut children's novel,With his signature deep dives into nerdy pop culture futures,author Ernest Cline is one of Austin's biggest-selling authors. Now he's stepping into his home town's history for his debut children's novel,The book, to be published April 2024 by Little, Brown Books, follows a young girl called Opal B Flats and her adventures with a colony of music-loving bats.
The story is inspired by bedtime stories that Cline would tell his own children. Here's the first synopsis: After losing her mother, thirteen-year-old Opal moves in with her uncle Roscoe on the family farm. There, Opal befriends a group of orphaned bats. But just as the farm is starting to feel like home, the bats’ cave is destroyed by a big mining company with its sights set on the farmland next. If Opal and the bats can fit in anywhere, it’s the nearby city of Austin, home to their favorite music and a host of wonderfully eccentric characters.
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