Monday, December 2, 2013

Things Not Seen


This story is about a boy, a teenage boy with a thermal blanket and likes showering in the dark so he doesn’t have to fully wake up. Then one day he wakes up takes his shower in the dark and is about to brush his teeth, but nothing is there! He rushes out of his bathroom into his bedroom to expect himself in the mirror but all he sees is a floating towel no body, bobby Phillips has turn completely invisible!

That is how this book kicks off one day out of the blue the main character bobby turns not transparent but completely invisible, and at first his parents don’t even believe him. But after a glass floated into the air drained itself of all the orange juice it contained and set itself back onto the kitchen table they weren’t left with many other options. But so luck would have it (or maybe not depending on whom you were asking) Bobby’s parents are both really smart, his father a scientist and his mother a college English teacher. After a series of experiments and questions to try and figure out what caused their son to turn invisible they both come to the verdict that bobby should stay home until they all find out what has happened to him. But he get stir crazy, so while his folks are out at work he goes to the library and that’s where he meets Alicia.    
  

Clements’s story is full of life; it’s poignant, funny, scary, and seemingly all too possible. The author is a genius the way he successfully blends reality with fiction in a story that holds his audience in suspense until the very end. It’s a novel I would recommend to a lot of people and it is a story I don’t mind reading again and again. Plus, now that I’m in high school the story seems to make even more sense to me and now is super relatable to me. Anybody who has gone through high school can understand this novel but it is what you take from this that really is a true thing a beauty.   


Book Review by Morgan D.

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