This book will make you want to read to the next page. This book is exciting and is a exciting mystery.
I would recommend this book to kids from the grades 5-8 and kids that like to read mysteries. ( )

Paula for kids

One cold winter morning in Chicago, Bobby Phillips gets out of the shower only to discover that he is gone. That's how this interesting foray into the possibility of turning invisible starts off. The thing is, the author puts this book together in such a logical manner that you can imagine it is possible.

Approached as more of a scientific mystery novel than an adventure one (although there are some moderately adventuresome parts) we follow along with Bobby as he tries to deal with a world that cannot see him. Determined not to let his "condition" stop him Bobby forays out into the world naked and utterly alone, discovering that even when he wasn't invisible, in some ways he really was.

There was one little quibble I had with the book. I don't want to say that Bobby is a "typical" 15 year old with his rather self-centered notions and irritation with his parents despite their best efforts, but I remember myself at 15 and many of my friends at that age and the attitude is awfully familiar. Looking at it now from a parents' point of view I both sympathized with and was annoyed by his thoughts and actions. This small frustration was easy to overlook as the story itself was engrossing and moved swiftly as Bobby has to take on new challenges that exceed far beyond his invisibility.

Overall this would be a very good book for tweens and teens and I would certainly recommend it. ( )

A teen boys wakes up one morning to find he is invisible. He hides out in his house because he and his parents dont' want anyone to know until they can fix it because they think that scientists will quarantine and study their son treating him unfairly. The boys sneaks out one day to go to the library and bumps into a blind girl, who of course can't see that he is invisible, and they become friends. She helps him to find out how he became invisible. It was due to an electric blanket and the electromagnetic field in the universe somehow. The story involves teen romance and a first kiss. No language or real sensitive issues. ( )

Andrew Clements manages to take a ridiculous situation and give it some real thought-provoking moments. Bobby wakes up one day to find that he has become invisible overnight. His parents decide to hide the situation because they don't want him to become a governmental science experiment. Fortunately, Bobby meets a blind girl, becomes friends with her and confides in her. This way, Clements induces the reader to think about blindness in new ways while not necessarily reading a book about blindness. A welcome move into the Young Adult category for Clements. ( )