thingsthatare

Things That Are by Andrew Clements (BOOK #3 in series) ISBN: 978-0-545-20404-0 c2008 167 pages

Good sections to read aloud: pp. 38-41 when Alicia meets another invisible person!

Summary: Alicia is blind and best friends with Bobby, a boy who was once invisible. Bobby is no longer invisible, but gets sucked into helping another stranger who enters their life who is. Alicia is skeptical at first to help out, but Bobby and her devise a plan that they think can work. The FBI is snooping around and its then that Bobby and Alicia discover their fathers also have a secret...they have been experimenting on rats to figure out how to become invisible, stay invisible, and then change back! They have to destroy the evidence, but Alicia and Bobby don’t have to destroy their secret. Will the FBI figure out what is going on before Bobby and Alicia can help this other man? Will Bobby and Alicia get in trouble doing so? Read to find out!!! This is a fun and fast moving book.

YA fiction: science fiction; invisibility; blindness

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