A Few Resources about Bats …

The Bat-Poet, by Randall Jarrell (fiction)

  • Age Range: 8 - 12 years
  • Grade Level: 3 and up
  • Lexile Measure: 660L
  • Paperback: 48 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins (October 25, 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 006205905X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0062059055

Bats at the Library… series (Beach, Ballgame, in the Band), by Brian Lies (fiction)

  • Age Range: 4 - 8 years
  • Grade Level: Preschool - 3
  • Lexile Measure: 720L
  • Hardcover: 32 pages
  • Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers (September 8, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 061899923X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0618999231

Bat Scientists, by Mary Ann Carson (non-fiction)

  • Age Range: 10 and up
  • Grade Level: 5 - 9
  • Series: Scientists in the Field Series
  • Paperback: 80 pages
  • Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers (August 13, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0544104935
  • ISBN-13: 978-0544104938

Darkwing, by Kenneth Oppel (fiction, stand-alone book)

  • Age Range: 8 - 12 years
  • Grade Level: 5 and up
  • Lexile Measure: 730L
  • Hardcover: 432 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins; First Edition edition (August 21, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 006085054X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060850548

Silverwing (the Silverwing Trilogy), by Kenneth Oppel (fiction trilogy with Sunwing and Firewing)

  • Age Range: 8 - 12 years
  • Grade Level: 3 - 7
  • Series: The Silverwing Trilogy
  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition (September 18, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1416949984
  • ISBN-13: 978-1416949985

Sunwing: 336 pages, ISBN-10: 1416949978

Firewing: 336 pages, ISBN-10: 1416949992

Stellaluna, by Janell Cannon

  • Hardcover: 46 pages
  • Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books; 1st edition (April 30, 1993)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0152802177

National Geographic Kids, Bats, by Elizabeth Carney

  • Age Range: 5 - 8 years
  • Grade Level: Kindergarten - 3
  • Lexile Measure: 690L
  • Series: Readers
  • Paperback: 32 pages
  • Publisher: National Geographic Children's Books (September 14, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1426307101
  • ISBN-13: 978-1426307102

Center for Bat Research, Outreach, and Conservation, based at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana. The Center’s mission is to conduct and encourage research on North American bats, by collaborating with students and other scientists, and to make findings available to the scientific community and the public through technical and popular publications, teaching, and outreach programs.

Organization for Bat Conservation, a national leader in educating students and citizens about bats. Connect through to kids and educators resources. Bat box building plans and much more. Based in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Bat Conservation International, Based in Texas. BCI is dedicated to the enduring protection of the world’s 1300+ species of bats and their habitats and creating a world in which bats and humans successfully coexist. Suggested resources plus a Bat Resource Trunk that can be rented for your classroom/school, library or museum.

BatsLive, a distance learning adventure, webcasts, webinars, classroom resources, bat box building plans and much more.

Build a Bat Box …. LOTS of free plans and videos on the Internet.