In tim ranch's novel, a young fruit-bat is fascinated by children playing in a backyard. while upside down, the creature barely makes out images of swinging sticks and rolling balls in a host of colors and running humans. it is children enjoying a croquet set straight from the "fairest of three-dollar garage sales." the bat, of course, has very poor eyesight, but it is the bat's imagination-not just its vision and position-that propel the story. the bat imagines happy, laughter-filled backyard scenes. descriptions presented by this bat only add to the appeal of tim ranch’s latest novel, sleeping upside-down. in paragraph 1, the word appeal means a) charm. b) confusion. c) peculiarity. d) offensiveness.