Things Not Seen
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Chapter Book · Ages 10–15 · 2002 · Est. 6 hour read

Things Not Seen

By Andrew Clements

Book #1 in the Things Not Seen series

A teen wakes up invisible, risking everything to find a cure before it's too late.

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256 pages· 62,861 words· Est. 6 hour read
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Fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up invisible, a mystery even his physicist father can't solve. Isolated and missing, he finds solace in Alicia, a blind girl who becomes his confidante. As suspicions grow and time runs out, Bobby must uncover the secret to his invisibility before it endangers his family. Can he find a way to be seen again, or will he remain a ghost in his own life?

From the publisher

Winner of American Library Association Schneider Family Book Award! Bobby Phillips is an average fifteen-year-old-boy. Until the morning he wakes up and can’t see himself in the mirror. Not blind, not dreaming-Bobby is just plain invisible. There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to Bobby’s new condition; even his dad the physicist can’t figure it out. For Bobby that means no school, no friends, no life. He’s a missing person. Then he meets Alicia. She’s blind, and Bobby can’t resist talking to her, trusting her. But people are starting to wonder where Bobby is. Bobby knows that his invisibility could have dangerous consequences for his family and that time is running out. He has to find out how to be seen again-before it’s too late.

Awards

Schneider Family Book Award (2004)
At a glance
Format
Paperback
Pages
256
Words
62,861
Reading age
10–15
Audience
Middle Grade
Lexile
690L
Themes & topics
Books about friendshipBooks about disabilitiesBooks about feelings and emotionsBooks about social themesBooks about blindness
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Book details

Reading levels
ATOS
4.5
F&P level
~P
AR points
9
AR interest level
MG+
AR quiz
58220
Publication
Published
February 24, 2004
First published
March 4, 2002
Publisher
Puffin Books
Edition
Language
English
Type
Chapter Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9780142400760

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