Bobby, however, becomes increasingly determined to take control of the situation-and of his own destiny: 'And I want to yell, It's my life! You can't leave me out of the decisions about my own life! You are not in charge here!' Equally credible is the boy's deepening connection to Alicia, who helps Bobby figure out a solution to his problem. As his physicist father struggles to find a scientific explanation for and a solution to his son's condition, husband and wife decide that they will tell the investigating truancy officials and police that Bobby has run away. As preposterous as the teen's predicament may be, the author spins a convincing and affecting story, giving Bobby's feeling of helplessness and his frustration with his parents an achingly real edge. Their blossoming friendship injects a double meaning into the book's title. From the author of We Are the Ants comes another winner (Booklist, starred review) about a boy who believes the universe is slowly shrinking as the things he. He feels isolated until he meets Alicia, a teenager who has. But when Bobby ventures out of the house and visits the library, he meets Alicia, a blind girl to whom he confides his secret. In this thought-provoking novel, main character Bobby, 15, wakes up one morning invisible. Bobby breaks the news to his parents who, afraid of being hounded by the media, instruct him to share his dilemma with no one.

They and their parents search for a way to prevent the public from learning about his condition and tearing the family apart. As the book opens, the boy discovers that he has turned invisible overnight. Published in 2002, Things Not Seen, a science-fiction novel written by Andrew Clements for middle-grade students, tells of a boy who becomes invisible and strikes up a friendship with a girl who is blind. Bobby's scientific father is fascinated by the problem, and his confident mother begins dueling with the child. The earnest and likable 15-year-old narrator is the principal thing not seen in Clements's ( Frindle The Jacket) fast-paced novel, set in Chicago. Bobby is a regular student with busy parents, who don't see who he really is, or what he wants, until one day when nobody can see Bobby, because he is invisible.

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