It’s looking like they’ll go to jail pretty soon, on suspicion of hacking up his dead body and flushing it down the toilet or something, if he doesn’t figure out how to get visible again. of child welfare services, and the police become interested in what has happened to Bobby, who before you know it has missed a month of school and his parents refuse to disclose his whereabouts. They’re afraid that if anyone finds out, the government will take Bobby away and they’ll never see him again.īut while they’re trying to solve his problem–which isn’t too easy to solve–the school, the dept. He frightens the daylights out of his parents–his mother is a U of Chicago English prof, his father a physicist who smashes atoms for a living–and they decide to keep him home from school and keep Bobby’s problem a secret. The book begins with Bobby Phillips waking up in the morning, taking a shower, and stepping in front of the mirror to discover that he has gone invisible overnight. It’s written in the first person, from the point of view of a fairly bright 15-year-old who speaks exactly like a 15-year-old boy.
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