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I’m admitting here and now that this is the first time I have read this whole, entire book, even though it’s been around for a couple years, my book club read it, and it’s one of the Maud Hart Lovelace books for this coming year. I’ve read many parts in the past, started it many times, skimmed it for various reasons, but never read the whole book. And even though it’s science fiction and I had to quit thinking logically to let the action of the story take its course, it’s really a pretty entertaining book.

What would you do if you woke up, looked at yourself in the mirror, and you had disappeared? Well, first you’d go have some fun at your parents’ expense, which is exactly what 15-year-old Bobby did. But then you’d have to realize something REALLY strange happened during the night, you can’t tell anyone because it’s TOO strange, and either turn yourself over to your very intelligent university professor parents to let them figure it all out, or take matters into your own–invisible–hands. And Bobby did a little of both. But check out his first trip to the library where he “bumps” into a girl who, luckily for Bobby, is blind and wouldn’t be able to see him even if he was a normal Bobby.

Anyway, lots of funny things happen. Lots of things you just have to allow to happen even though they might not make sense. but that all becomes part of the science+fiction-ness of this story. Check it out!