Things Not Seen

Bobby wakes up, takes his shower, wipes off the fog covered mirror and doesn't see himself. What has happened? Join Bobby and his parents as they try to figure this out.

This is a fun book about a boy who wakes up invisible. The author Clements, makes the situation seem realistic in the problems and situations that arise from bein invisible.

What does Bobby Phillips wear when he leaves the house? How will he be treated by a blind girl he meets at the library?

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Wait...if she's blind and he's invisible???!!! What caused the problem?

What would a teen-aged boy do if he woke up invisible? Clements does a pretty good job filling Bobby Phillip's shoes.

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One of the best reads I've had in 2008. I like this book because it features a male and female protagonist--one becomes invisible, the other is blind. Both are trying to fit in and finding themselves ignored.

Bobby is invinsible. He does everything in his power to make himself be seen. He meets Alicia who is blind, they gradually become best friends, and then.... something happenes. This book is highly entertaining. The author's unique sense of writing sent chills down my back. The theme of this book

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is, if you do not fit into the crowd dont try so hard, its better be far unique than be like every other person in this planet.

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The story of a teenage boy who wakes up one day to find himself invisible. He becomes friends with a blind girl and embarks on an adventure to try to solve his invisibiltiy problem.

Andrew Clements manages to take a ridiculous situation and give it some real thought-provoking moments. Bobby wakes up one day to find that he has become invisible overnight. His parents decide to hide the situation because they don't want him to become a governmental science experiment.

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Fortunately, Bobby meets a blind girl, becomes friends with her and confides in her. This way, Clements induces the reader to think about blindness in new ways while not necessarily reading a book about blindness. A welcome move into the Young Adult category for Clements.

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A teen boys wakes up one morning to find he is invisible. He hides out in his house because he and his parents dont' want anyone to know until they can fix it because they think that scientists will quarantine and study their son treating him unfairly. The boys sneaks out one day to go to the

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library and bumps into a blind girl, who of course can't see that he is invisible, and they become friends. She helps him to find out how he became invisible. It was due to an electric blanket and the electromagnetic field in the universe somehow. The story involves teen romance and a first kiss. No language or real sensitive issues.

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One cold winter morning in Chicago, Bobby Phillips gets out of the shower only to discover that he is gone. That's how this interesting foray into the possibility of turning invisible starts off. The thing is, the author puts this book together in such a logical manner that you can imagine it is

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possible.

Approached as more of a scientific mystery novel than an adventure one (although there are some moderately adventuresome parts) we follow along with Bobby as he tries to deal with a world that cannot see him. Determined not to let his "condition" stop him Bobby forays out into the world naked and utterly alone, discovering that even when he wasn't invisible, in some ways he really was.

There was one little quibble I had with the book. I don't want to say that Bobby is a "typical" 15 year old with his rather self-centered notions and irritation with his parents despite their best efforts, but I remember myself at 15 and many of my friends at that age and the attitude is awfully familiar. Looking at it now from a parents' point of view I both sympathized with and was annoyed by his thoughts and actions. This small frustration was easy to overlook as the story itself was engrossing and moved swiftly as Bobby has to take on new challenges that exceed far beyond his invisibility.

Overall this would be a very good book for tweens and teens and I would certainly recommend it.

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I got this book on a whime, because the premise sounded interesting. It was a decent book overall; although not so spectacular that I want to read the next two books in the series.

Bobby wakes up one morning to discover that he is invisible. No one can see him and he can't see himself. What seems

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kind of cool at first, is actually quite a problem as Bobby and his family try to figure out what happened and Bobby tries to struggle through normal everyday life. He ends up meeting a blind girl named Alicia; they are both invisible to people in their own way. Bobby and Alicia form an unlikely friendship that helps Bobby to deal with his invisibility.

This was a pretty good book. Bobby and Alicia are likable characters, as are their parents. Bobby has to struggle with interesting issues as an invisible person. He can't go to school and can't even go out places unless he goes au natural. Bobby's condition is dealt with in detail given that his dad is a successful physicist that is determined to fix his son. We learn strange facts like the fact that Bobby's spit is invisible, but things he holds in his hand do not become invisible.

Of course this book, like many books dealing with teenagers, is about more than Bobby becoming invisible. It is about how Bobby felt invisible before he actually became invisible and how his parents react to his invisibility. It is about how people, including surrounding society, deal with disabilities. It is also about Bobby and Alicia, from very different social circles, form a steadfast friendship because of their respective disabilities. They would have probably never even tried to get to know each other if it wasn't for Alicia's blindness and Bobby's invisibility.

The book is a quick read and keeps you engaged. The writing is not spectacular, but it is very readable. Overall it was an interesting read and deals with some interesting topics. I liked it. The story wraps up very nicely at the end. I actually had no idea that there were two additional books dealing with Bobby and Alicia until I looked up this book on Amazon. Will I read those books? Probably not, I got what I wanted from the book and am not really all that interested in what happens to Bobby and Alicia next.

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The book about the boy in the family that in one morning he found out that he not normal like human is invisible for not in a long time. Because later he found a friend she is a girl but there some thing about her that she is blind but not born like that just it happen in one morning too. But now

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there no way she can see again. But she found out that the boy she knew is same situation like her that not normal as human. But not for long, the boy get the idea from the girl he knew that turn him back to normal. Then their love grew for each other. This book is really interesting. I dont want to tell too much about his book then it will not make this book good anymore. So, go find the book and read it.

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This book was fun to read! It is a story about a teenage boy named Bobby who wakes up one morning and realizes that he is now invisible. He has to learn how to cope with his new “ability”, and often finds himself in some tough situations to keep his invisibility a secret (he doesn’t want to

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be seen as some sort of freak!). He becomes friends with a blind girl named Alisha, and their friendship is strengthened as they learn to help each other out with their disabilities. Suprisingly, this bizarre situation is written into a fairly believable story. I also really liked that it didn’t seem too juvenile- this story can be enjoyable for anyone from about 4th grade up to adult.

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I would recommend this novel to any library that hosts a teen collection. This helped with many projects and book reports.

Things not seen shows the theme that even though you are different you can make friends no matter what happens. the main issue of the story is that one day while waking up and taking a shower Bobby Philips finds out that he is invisible. While he is invisible he tries to reverse the invisibility

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and meets a girl named Alicia who later became friends. At the end when he isn't invisible anymore he learns how he became invisible and also that you can make friends for what ever reason it is.

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The book, Things Not Seen, shows how strong a bond is between two friends. In the beginning, Bobby Philips wakes up and realizes that he is cmpletely INVISIBLE. Around the middle, Bobby befriends a blind girl named Alicia and tells her his secret. Near the end he finds a way to turn visible again.

the novel,Thing not seen,by Andrew Clements encompasses the life of a boy who suddenly turned invisible. IN the beginning bobby struggles with being not able to be seen.THrought the middle he persevers through trying to get back to normal. BY the end he has changed back, and has found another with

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his problem. pages read 251/251

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The novel, Things Not Seen, encompasses friendship. In the beginning, Bobby Philips, the protaginist struggles when he turns invisible. Throughout the middle, he persevers through a blind girl, Alicia, becoming his friend. By the end, he realizes that being invisible is better than being visible.

The novel Things not seen encompasses the issues of a boy who becomes invisible. In the beginning Bobby phillips, the Protaganist struggles with invisibilty . Throughout the middle he perserveres through the conflict of beging invisible and trys to find out how did he become invisible and why?? By

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the end he has learned how he became invisible.
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This was a very well written book. The author did a great job of keeping the reader interested and giving good details on how life might be like if you were invisible. This would be a great book to read as a class in a middle school classroom. Everyone has felt like they were invisible at some

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point, and that usually happens when you are in middle school. That is why this would be good to read as a class so students can discuss. It could also be used in a literature circle for the same reasons. Even though this was a great book, I only gave it four stars. I felt like the author rushed the ending.

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The novel, Things not Seen by Adrew Clements encompasses that being invisible isn't the best thing that you would want. In the beginning 15 year old Bobby woke up one night and went into the bathroom and when he was looking in the mirror his reflection wasn't there. Bobby struggled to get by in his

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daily life because nobody could see him and when he went out in public he couldn't wear any clothes! Throughout the middle he perseveres by telling a girl how he was invisible and she wants to help Bobby get through it and her name was Alicia. By the end Bobby learns that being invisible although it sounds cool it's not from what Bobby experienced and if you want to be invisible then you will probably go through the same experience as Bobby did.

Pages read (217/251)

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'Things Not Seen' is a cute lovestory-has-a-problem kind of book. Our hero suffers invisibility, but begins to fall for a blind girl. He has to find his way back to visibility before it's too late.

Very herd book to understand but at the end it turned into a great book.

I thought this book did a great job at show the struggles that come along when someone disappears. I liked how it was about how he went invisible instead of actually missing,it gave it so much more interest and really kept me wanting to read to find out how he would come back to life and be seen by

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all this friends and family. I enjoyed this book a lot, I even recommended it to my dad to read.

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Bobby is pretty invisible in real life, to his parents and the kids at school, etc. Then Bobby actually becomes really invisible, but it does very little to improve his personality. He's invisible and a teenager, so what's the logical thing to do? Flaunt your "power" over your parents, break rules,

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feel sorry for yourself, meet a blind girl who doesn't know you're invisible. Then his parents are in a horrible crash, so Bobby, who has been down on his parents for thinking of how his invisibility would impact their lives, thinks of how their hospitalization will mess up his life.

In case you can't tell, I lost patience with Bobby pretty early on, and this perhaps colored my viewpoint of the book. I wish there could be some YA books without parents being written as dumb or evil or selfish or all combinations of the above. But the good points of the book are that while many of us have felt invisible at various points in our lives, we weren't. Bobby is, and has to deal with it. His parents also have to deal with what appears to be a missing child, and subsequent investigations from Child Protective Services, all while trying to figure out what made Bobby invisible.

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Really cool YA novel about a boy who wakes up one morning and is invisible. He ends up forming a relationship with a blind girl; because she can't see anyone, she doesn't know that she's talking to an invisible person. It's a fun, easy read, a thought-provoking fantasy, and a heartwarming little

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romance. The ending made me cry. Highly recommended!

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