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Title: Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements, Daniel Passer ISBN: 0-8072-1585-6 Publisher: Random House Audio Publishing Group Pub. Date: August, 2003 Format: Audio Cassette

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Average Customer Rating: 4.26 (35 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: A deeper look into invisibility:
Comment: 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.

Rating: 5
Summary: Clements has outdone himself
Comment: Wow! This book is spectacular! As most people know, this book is about a boy named Bobby Phillips who one day finds himself invisible. Yes, invisible. He tells his parents who won't let him tell a soul because they think people will run tests on him and whatnot. Of corse, no one can keep a secret that big so Bobby tells this blind girl named Alicia (imagine the chances of Bobby running into someone blind while he's invisible) because he thinks she's pretty and nice. Then the girl's parents find out, and Alicia's dad is some supergenius or something, so he and Bobby's dad work together to try and turn bobby back to normal. Of corse, Alicia and Bobby crush on each other and everything. But if you don't like romance, don't worry, there's barely any. So anyway, Alicia turns out to be the smart one and eventually finds the way to turn Bobby back, but I won't tell you how. Many of you people probably think that this is a spoof of H.G. Wells's THE INVISIBLE MAN, and even though Clements may have gotten his idea from Wells, this book is completely different. For one thing, it's about a normal teen, not some insane guy that wants to take over the world. Oh well, I'm rambling, but the truth is that this is a great book. I liked it because I'm kind of a science and philosophy nerd, so I like the ideas of refracting light and invisibily casting a shadow on dense matter. Clement's books are usually ok, but he's outdone himself this time. It's hard for me to admit it, but i almost cried when I finished this book because I loved it so much. So definately read this book and enjoy it while it lasts.

Rating: 4
Summary: refracting light
Comment: 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.