Things Not Seen

[Jfish]

Has anyone here read this book by Andrew Clements?
One of my favorites.

[KizzyShima]

I love Things Not Seen! I thought it was amazing. ^^ What was your favorite part about it?

[knieve]

I liked the part where the boy sneaks out to go to the sears place and finds out who else bought the blanket.

[moon14]

I really loved that book, very well written. I liked the part where the blind girl was asking people on the street if they could see him and the part where he became visible again and the police came into his room and saw him naked! ha ha. Very good book.

[meteorite]

I've liked Andrew Clements since the first book I read by him, Frindle. He has a knack for taking larger issues, like personal responsibility and freedom of the press and making them accessible for younger readers, without dumbing them down.

Have you read the followup book, Things Hoped For?

[Jfish]

I liked the part where the blind girl was asking people on the street if they could see him

lol yeah that part was funny. I also liked the parts where he's talking to shiela ( the invisible girl), and the part with his mom in the hospital. I really like the way this story is written, i can relate to the kid a lot, because it's written from a teen perspective so well. All he characters are awesome.

No, i haven't read the follow up. I forgot there even was one until you mentioned it, metiorite. I tried to find it about a year ago but my library didn't have it and I forgot. I've gotta order it from amazon sometime soon.

Fish

[dorotheia]

Oh yeah! Things Not Seen was a good one. Not that it was my favorite, compared to Andrew Clement's others, but very good.
I really liked the scene where the neighbor leaves some cookies outside the door and Bobby goes out dressed fully like his "aunt". So funny!
Things Hoped For was good, but kind of strange. Meeting Bobby again was good, though. He's so much older and more mature, and yet he's still good ol' Bobby. Still, I really liked Things Not Seen better.

[Dragon Writer]

ok, sorry for how short this post will probably be, i'm not sure if i read this before...*is checking it out just in case from library* watch out, because if i HAVE read it the next parts a spoiler, and if not it's kinda nonesense...<span class="ev_code_WHITE">does the cause of the invisibility include an electric blanket?</span> if that's not the case, i just read a book a lot like it...either way...*looks up* WOW! it wasn't a short post after all!

[Jfish]

lol that's the book.

[Dragon Writer]

wait...so....you're telling me i checked it out for NOTHING? i'm just wasting valuable book space? not really though...:P i feel like reading it again anyways. *grins* *grins again* *wonders why i'm grinning* *gets bored from grinning* anyways....i LIKED that book! i found it just PERFECT that he managed to find a blind girl who would have no chance to NOTICE his lack of actually being there...one of those things that are just too perfect to happen in real life, but perfectly reasonable to see in books i guess...

[Rubywolf]

<span class="ev_code_RED">I hate to break it to you, but I found a major problem with it. If I was blind, and there was a naked inviable guy next to me, I would leave. So what if he's invisable? He's NAKED. </span> <span class="ev_code_WHITE">The theory for the electric blanket is the same used in Fantastic Four. Not the blanket itself, but that it was solar rays and stuff.</span> <span class="ev_code_RED">spoiler end.</span>

[Dragon Writer]

*didn't end up reading it again* though i did read the second book. i personally wouldn't leave...i'd be too into the idea of an adventure. :P plus, how exactly do you leave an invisible guy behind? if he's convinced you are currently his only hope of returning to normal, you're going to have a hard time loosing him!

[Rubywolf]

young reader: i personally wouldn't leave...i'd be too into the idea of an adventure. :P plus, how exactly do you leave an invisible guy behind? if he's convinced you are currently his only hope of returning to normal, you're going to have a hard time loosing him!

He's a guy. And he's naked. I wouldn't care at all about adventure at that point. He's tangible, isn't he? I could stick a knife in a couple of times, and the body would be invisable, too. Of course, I'd give him a fair chance to escape. If he wasn't being annoying. Well, that's an overstatement. I could lock myself in my house, and I could find a way to get him to leave. He'd give up, eventually.

[Dragon Writer]

how would you ever know he wasn't still there, following you around? every time you left, you'd think he was still there, or worry, or wonder, and you'd never quite be certain....*thinks that's kinda creepy* all considering, it's in your best interest to get him visisble again...AND make him wear tons of clothes.