![]() Together they help each other work through their situations to find friendship and a new strength that they did not realize they possessed. Through Alicia Bobby learns that there is something worse than being invisible, and that is being made to feel invisible. Once there, he strips down and proceeds to stroll silently through the library until he meets Alicia, the one person who will not notice that he is invisible. To his advantage it is winter so no one seems to notice when he escapes to the library covered by layers of clothing. ![]() His physicist father attempts to dissect the problem as he would any other scientific anomaly, whereas Bobby's mother is likely to smother him with attention and orders. His mother and father approach his new condition as they approach everything else in life. Not only is Bobby invisible, but he also is alone. Not blind, not dreaming-Bobby is just plain invisible. Until the morning he wakes up and can't see himself in the mirror. ![]() Only his mother and father can know and that means not school, not friends, no one. 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. Bobby quickly finds out that the reality of being invisible is quite different from what is portrayed in movies and books. When he wipes the fog off the mirror to comb his hair he notices something is missing which is him. ![]() Throwing off his electric blanket, fifteen-year-old Bobby stumbles to the bathroom to shower. At first it seems like any other Tuesday. ![]()
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