Reply #47: As a Kid I read a scifi book called "Chocky", anybody hear of it?

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It was about a kid that everyone thought had an invisible friend who as I recall was really an alien. This made me think of it. Think I'll go look around the net to see if it is still in print. Think my 12 yr old would enjoy it.
....Back now, here's a review from Amazon:
John Wyndham's Chocky is a rather humanistic story about how a family deals with one son's mysterious unseen friend, Chocky. At first they thought their son was suffering from an over-exercised imagination. Then it becomes plainly that Chocky is real, and is literally from out of this world. Trite? In a way, yes. But I found the characterizations, especially of the parents, to be very well judged. So from a science fiction perspective Chocky doesn't enthrall, but otherwise it stands fairly well on its own.

However I expected much more. John Wyndham has written some very intriguing books which really makes one think of social/environmental issues. The Chrysalids, for me, is his best. Wyndham simply didn't try to achieve such heights with Chocky, which is unfortunate.

Bottom line: a curious and very readable novel. But Wyndham has done much better.

Humanistic, no wonder I liked it. Guess I'll hit the library to see if they have a copy. I'd like to read it again.