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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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Summary: Started slow and ended much to soon
Review: What would you do if one day you got out of bed and took a shower and realized that you were invisible? Well that's just what happens to unpopular Bobby Phillips. He's no stranger to feeling invisible to everyone, especially when it comes to girls. Then one fateful day at the library, he bumps into Alicia and panics thinking his secret will be revealed. It doesn't take long though, for Bobby to discover that Alicia is blind. The two quickly become inseparable and for the first time Bobby begins to feel accepted. But when Bobby starts to wonder if he will ever go back to normal again, the friendship turns into a crush, that may end up pushing the two farther away, instead of bringing them closer.Things Not Seen was a well written and in depth book. Although it starts out slow, the book picks up it's pace and is hard to put down. Andrew Clements gave away subtle details and wrote the book smoothly, which will make you fall in love with the characters. This book will show you how much you can impact other people's lives, even when they can't see you.
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Summary: A Great Author = Great Book
Review: What would you do if you were invisible? Well, I sure know what Bobby Phillips would do of Chicago, Illinois wakes up one day and is invisible. Before the day he was REALLY invisible, in a way he was invisible to his parents. He was there in a solid figure but his parent just won't pay attention to him. Later on that week something tragic happened. Bobby's parents got into a terrible accident. With his parents in jeopardy he realizes how much he really loves them. After the accident Mr. And Mrs. Phillips were put under intense care wing. Bobby isn't allowed to visit them. But being invisible he visits them both. After he visits them he goes to the library and meets a girl, no ordinary girl, a special girl. Clements teaches you that even if you are special you can help in many ways. In the book it's like The Phillips vs. Officer Padgett. I'd give this book five stars because it's interesting and different in many ways. If you want to know who this "special girl" is and if and when Bobby turns visible read Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements. Published by Philomel books in 2002 at New York, New York.
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