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Invisible

Invisible
Illustrated by: Pete Hautman
This edition: eBook, 160 pages
Ages: 12 and up
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List Price: $7.99
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Awards and Nominations

  • ALA Best Books For Young Adults
  • ALA Notable Children's Book Nominee
  • ALA Quick Picks Nominee
  • Blue Hen Book Award Master List (DE)
  • CCBC Choices (Cooperative Children's Book Council)
  • Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award Master List (VT)
  • Evergreen Book Award Master List (WA)
  • Kansas State Reading Circle Senior High Titles
  • Kentucky Bluegrass Award Master List
  • Kirkus Editor's Choice
  • Minnesota Book Awards Finalist
  • NYPL "Books for the Teen Age"
  • Pennsylvania School Librarian Association (PSLA) "Top Ten (Or So)" Young Adult Books
  • Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee
  • Texas Tayshas High School Reading List
  • Thumbs Up! Award Master List (MI)
  • VOYA - Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers
  • Wisconsin Library Association Elizabeth Burr/Worzalla Award (WI)
  • YALSA Teens Top Ten (TTT) Nominee
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Description

You could say that my railroad, the Madham Line, is almost the most important thing in my life. Next to Andy Morrow, my best friend.


Lots of people think Doug Hanson is a freak -- he gets beat up after school, and the girl of his dreams calls him a worm. Doug's only refuge is creating an elaborate bridge for the model railroad in his basement and hanging out with his best friend, Andy Morrow, a popular football star who could date any girl in school. Doug and Andy talk about everything -- except what happened at the Tuttle place a few years back.

It does not matter to Andy that we live in completely different realities. I'm Andy's best friend. It does not matter to Andy that we hardly ever actually do anything together.

As Doug retreats deeper and deeper into his own reality, long-buried secrets threaten to destroy both Doug and Andy -- and everything else in Doug's fragile world.

"Echoes of Faulkner."

-- Kirkus

"With its excellent plot development and unforgettable, heartbreaking protagonist, this is a compelling novel of mental illness."

-- School Library Journal, starred review

"Hautman once again proves his keen ability for characterization and for building suspense."

-- Publishers Weekly, starred review