1a backyard fruit bat watches, “swinging mallets! spinning balls in a host of colors! a croquet set straight from the fairest of three-dollar garage sales.” the bat, of course, has very poor eyesight. the bat tries to imagine happy backyard scenes through its blurry vision. descriptions written by a bat only add to the appeal of tim ranch’s latest novel, sleeping upside-down. in paragraph 1, the word poor means a) thin. b) needy. c) unusual. d) unreliable.