num_pages: 208
description: For Bixby Alexander Tam (nicknamed Bat) life tends to be full of surprises  some of them good some not so good. Today though is a good-surprise day. Bats mom a veterinarian has brought home a baby skunk which she needs to take care of until she can hand him over to a wild-animal shelter.But the minute Bat meets the kit he knows they belong together. And hes got one month to show his mom that a baby skunk might just make a pretty terrific pet.
language: English
title: A Boy Called Bat
publisher: Walden Pond Press