Things Not Seen- Book Report #2

I read the book Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements. I think I would rate this book a 9.6 because I liked pretty much everything it, especially the friendship between Bobby and Alicia. They turned out to be best friends, and they would have never even met or paid attention to each other if Bobby wouldn’t have been invisible or if Alicia wouldn’t have been blind. I thought it was cool how they kept thinking up little experiments to see if anybody would help Bobby’s “situation”.
My favorite part of the book was when Bobby and Alicia were instant messaging each other, and Alicia came up with the idea that maybe if Bobby slept with his electric blanket again, he would become normal. He couldn’t become more invisible, so that sounded like a logical theory. When Bobby woke up the next morning, he was visible again! Alicia, the little blind girl who everyone usually ignored and felt sorry for was the one who fixed the whole problem!
The only part I really didn’t like was Sheila. Sheila is a girl that is in the same “situation” as Bobby. She has been invisible for three years, but has had a pretty good life that way. When Bobby finds out how to become visible again, he calls Sheila, thinking she would be thrilled, but instead she had a kind of surprising answer. She said thanks for calling, but she likes her life exactly the way it is, and likes being invisible. She didn’t want to go back to normal again, and Bobby understood, but I thought that that was kind of weird. If I could rewrite that part of the book, I would have made Sheila be relieved that Bobby found the cure and she would have turned back to normal and would live happily ever after. On the other hand, if it would have gone that way in the book, it would have made that part really predictable, and I probably would have wanted to change it again. I guess that the author has to add these little quirks so people don’t get bored and quit reading. So maybe the book should stay exactly the way it was written in the first place.