Until the morning he wakes up and cant see himself in the mirror. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. By Andrew Clements Book 1 in the 'Things' books series This is a YA novel Bobby Phillips is an average fifteen-year-old boy. Teens will identify with Bobby's experience of being essentially invisible. Not blind, not dreaming-Bobby is just plain invisible. The ensuing drama, involving a nationwide search for other invisible people and a break-in to the computer database at Sears, Roebuck legal department headquarters ("News flash: Invisible people make excellent spies and thieves") is authentic enough in detail to allow readers to overlook the nuttiness of it all. Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements (Author) (603) Winner of American Library Association Schneider Family Book Award Bobby Phillips is an average fifteen-year-old-boy. Attempting to take matters in his own hands, he ventures out-naked-to the library, where he meets a blind girl who becomes a natural confidant. Doing his best to adapt, Bobby informs his parents and grows more and more frustrated as they try to control his (unseen) life. But what would happen if you actually did wake up invisible one day? Fifteen-year-old Bobby is faced with this curious predicament in Andrew Clements's compelling novel Things Not Seen. Teens, especially those not in the über-popular set, know all about feeling invisible.
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