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Paperback208 pages
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www.annefine.co.uk/Publisher
Corgi Childrens an imprint of Random House Children's BooksSuitable for Ages
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1st June 2006ISBN
9780552554657Children's Author 'Like-for-Like' recommendations
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Up on Cloud Nine
Anne Fine
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Julia Eccleshare's comment:
Award-winning Anne Fine has a rare gift for understanding teenagers and a sharp ear for capturing their dialogue. As Stolly lies wired up on the hospital bed his best friend touchingly charts the years of their friendship revealing both the strengths and the frailties of his friend. The result is an exceptionally sensitive novel about the complex emotions of adolescence.
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Synopsis
Up on Cloud Nine by Anne FineHow stupid do you have to be to fall out of a top floor window? Or was Stolly trying something else - up on cloud nine, even then? Stolly has always been so alive, so inspiring, taking risks, hiding nothing, notorious for being the school's most imaginative liar (or fantatist, as he calls it). But now he's lying in a hospital bed and Ian, his best friend who's as close as a brother, is watching, waiting and remembering...This is a characteristically funny, moving, life-affirming novel about a most remarkable character and the truly inspirational effect he has on everyone he meets.
Reviews
[Anne Fine] produces a subtle and absorbing tale. -- Publishers WeeklyEngland's Children's Laureate again exercises her unsurpassed gift for memorable, complex character studies. -- Kirkus Reviews, Starred
Fine outdoes herself here. -- The Horn Book Magazine, Starred
Completely absorbing. -- School Library Journal, Starred
About The Author
Anne Fine was our Guest Editor in July 2011. Click here to see the books she selected.
Anne Fine was born and educated in the Midlands and now lives in County Durham. She has written numerous highly acclaimed and prize-winning books for children and adults.
Her novel The Tulip Touch won the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award; Goggle-Eyes won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal and was adapted for television by the BBC; Flour Babies won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award; Bill's New Frock won a Smarties Prize, and Madame Doubtfire became the major feature film 'Mrs Doubtfire' starring Robin Williams. Anne was named Children's Laureate in 2002 and made an OBE for services to children's literature in 2003.
Click here to read a Q&A with the author or click here to read an extended biography in which Anne talks about her writing.
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