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Summary: An Andrew Clements masterpiece
Review: Things not Seen is a great book created by the fantastic author, Andrew Clements. The book is about a boy named Bobby Phillips who wakes up to find himself invisible! The main plot in this book is how Bobby tries to become visible again. Many other adventures happen, for example a terrible thing happens to his parents and when Bobby meets Alicia.The main characters in this book are Bobby and Alicia. Bobby is a fifteen-year-old boy who is the person who turned invisible. He is expressive and emotional and shows it in this book with great detail. Alicia is a blind girl who is about Bobby's age. Even though she is blind she helps Bobby a lot by being his body. The setting is in the Sears headquarters, the library and Bobby's house. My first favorite part is when Bobby first becomes invisible. When Bobby goes downstairs to tell his mom and dad that he is invisible, he licks a spoon and sticks it on his nose and proves it to his parents. Then his mom wants to call a specialist or a doctor and Bobby says, "Oh great. Yeah, let's call one of those Invisible Teenager Specialist. I'll go get the yellow pages." I found what Bobby said was funny. My second favorite part is when Bobby's mom is in the hospital and Bobby needs someone to take care of him. Bobby's mom says, "Bobby's Aunt Ethel will take care of him." But Bobby knows that his Aunt Ethel is in Florida and that his mom tricked the police so that no one would find out about Bobby being invisible. Andrew Clements is my favorite author because he knows how to make a book very interesting. For example no one but Mr. Clements would make a story about an invisible boy. Another technique Mr. Clements uses is that he makes the kids in his books do outrageous things. For example, in Frindle, Andrew Clements' best book, a boy tries to change the word 'pen' into Frindle. I strongly recommend his book.
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Summary: Things Not Seen
Review: Things Not Seen is a very good book but it is not as good as a book like the Lord of the Rings or other books like this. This book is about friendship and one of the lessons I learn from this is to never give up. Here is a quick summary of what happens. Theres this regular boy named Bobby but he turns invisible. And he doesn't know where to turn but then when he meets a blind girl named Alicia together they try to turn Bobby back to the way he was. If you want to learn more read Things Not Seen to find out.
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Summary: Things Not Seen
Review: Things Not Seen is awesome!! It's about a boy who wakes up to an invisible body. He is positive he is invisible when even his parents can't see him. He finds out that he is invisible because of his electric blanket. Then, he wanders if there is anybody else in the world that is invisible just like he is. He gets help finding some information about it from a blind girl that he met earlier. At first she didn't know he was invisible because of her blindness. But then she felt his skin and discovered he was naked. Well, if you want to find out what he finds out you have to read it. Two words: READ IT!!!
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Summary: "Things Not Seen" is awesome!
Review: Things Not Seen Scholastic Inc., 2002, 251 pp. $11.19
Andrew Clements ISBN 0-439-45620-7 "It's after the shower. That's when it happens.
It's when I turn on the bathroom light and wipe the fog off the mirror to comb my hair. It's what I see in the mirror. It's what I don't see.
I look a second time, and then rub at the mirror.
I'm not there.
That's what I'm saying.
I'm. Not. There."
This is how the book Things Not Seen begins when Bobby Phillips realizes that he has become invisible. He doesn't know how or why at first, and it takes him until the end of the book, of course, for him to find out.
This is a story about courage and friendship. From meeting a blind girl and sharing his secret, to social services getting suspicious of his whereabouts and trying to prove that his mom and dad have done something with him. He begins to wonder if he's the only one like this.
This book is a great book for anyone wanting a mystery or fantasy or neither one, because it's much more than just a mystery/fantasy.
What I thought was a really cool concept in this book was that his blind friend that he meets while he's invisible is kind of similar to him. She can't see people, and people can't see him.
I recommend this book to anyone, boys and girls, young and old. You are sure to be drawn into this awesome book.
-Alec Lee
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Summary: An Excellent Book
Review: This book is about a boy named Bobby Philips and he goes through life where nearly no one in the world notices him. Because the time when he smiled at the most popular girl and it was as if she just looked right through him. So one day he wakes up and goes into the bathroom and takes a shower and when he gets out he wipes the fog off of the mirror and sees nothing. So he wipes it again and still sees nothing. It's like people didn't see him before and now they never will. He can not tell anyone except his mom and dad. Because if someone told he would be big news on everything and everywhere. He can't do anything no school, no friends. He officially becomes a missing person. Then one day at the library he meets this girl. Her name is Alicia. She is blind so she can't see him. He can't resist talking to her. And he thinks he can trust her. So he is trying to have her help him get his life back. I don't want to tell you the end. You'll just have to read it yourself.
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Summary: refracting light
Review: This book is about a teenager who finds himself invisible in his home. His mom reacting how most moms would react when something goes wrong. He now can't go to school because he is invisible. He must walk around entirely wraped like a mummy so people don't get frightned by clothes walking around on their own. He can also go around with no clothes on. Bobby does not like being invisible. This forces him to steal information from a company to become visible again.
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Summary: Things Not Seen
Review: This Book is great. One morning Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible.At the begining his parents get in a accident. After he visits his parents in the hospital he goes to the library and meets a special girl. Read this book and find out if Bobby turns visible again.
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Summary: Very interesting book and perspective!
Review: This book starts out somewhat slow. It basically explains Bobbie's problem (which is invisibility)and sets up the reader for the rest of the story. Then Bobbie meets a special blind teenager named Alicia who easily relates to Bobbie's condition. Together (and with their parents), they explore the mystery of how Bobbie became invisible and how to make him visible once more. The book has some interesting and strange concepts but it keeps you wanting to read further. I wasn't sure if I would like the book when I began it, but once I finished it I thought it was a great book. The book also has some life lessons within it. Such as how judging other people can cause you to miss out on a wonderful friendship.
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Summary: A deeper look into invisibility:
Review: This book ventures out exploring the scientific possibilities of invisibility, talks about disabilities such as blindness, and is heavily based on trust, friendship, and family.
A simple summary might include the fact that Bobby Phillips becomes invisible, and with help from his parents and a newfound friend Alicia, he looks harder and finds that he may have a chance to become normal again.
Looking deeper into his story, it starts out saying that supposedly out of nowhere, Bobby Phillips suddenly wakes up and finds himself invisible. However, the book is more practical and says that it is just a matter of light not reflecting off of him. His parents decide that the right thing to do would be to keep his invisibility a secret so the government and media wouldn't harm him.
Bobby, though devastated that he may never become normal again, starts exploring the outside world despite his parents telling him not to go out. He visits the library and ends up bumping into a blind girl. Her name is Alicia, and he ends up telling her that he is invisible.
Eventually it turns out that her Dad catches her talking to no one on one day in the library, so it goes that Alicia's whole family knows. In a way, this helps a lot because both Alicia and Bobby's dads are scientists.
Bobby goes with Sherlock Holmes' method of writing down everything from the scene of the crime. It was Alicia's dad who figured the invisibility had something to do with the electric blanket and certain properties of electricity.
Bobby decides to see if there was anyone else who had a problem with the blanket, and calls the company, Sears. He does discover that there was definitely something very wrong with the blanket, and finds that there is at least one other person out there who was turned invisible.
With Alicia's help, he discovers a way that he might be able to reverse his condition... whether or not he goes back to normal would depend on whether or not you read the ending!
This book was very interesting. Andrew Clements writes in a style where you could fully relate with Bobby, and makes you look at invisibility with such a reality that it truly helps you feel the book. On a rating of 1-10, I think this book deserves a 7.
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Summary: A Great book
Review: This is a very good book. It gets you hooked from the very beginning because you want to know what happens to this invisible kid. I have read all of Andrew Clements books but one and this is one of his best! I read this book in two days I liked it so much, and I am not a very fast reader. I personally think it is more a book for Teens, because for me, I could relate to Bobby in some ways. It has a very happy ending, so if you need a book to, kind of, cheer you up this might be a good one!
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