Anne Fine. (2009). Up on Cloud Nine. Random House Children's Books.

Anne Fine. 2009. Up On Cloud Nine. Random House Children's Books.

Anne Fine, Up On Cloud Nine. Random House Children's Books, 2009.

Anne Fine. Up On Cloud Nine. Random House Children's Books, 2009.

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1. • role: Author
   • fileAs: Fine, Anne
   • bioText: Children’s Laureate of England and a two-time winner of the prestigious Carnegie Medal, Anne Fine is the author of Alias Madame Doubtfire, Flour Babies, The Tulip Touch, and Bad Dreams.
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Up on Cloud Nine

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Ian’s best friend, Stolly, is up on cloud nine. He’s in the hospital, unconscious, and hooked up to machines. The question Ian is trying to answer is: How did Stolly end up there?
In a way, Stolly’s always been on cloud nine, living life by his own rules and making those rules up as he goes along. His parents’ careers have them constantly rushing around, so Ian’s family has all but adopted Stolly. That’s why it’s up to Ian to figure out what happened to his best friend. But once the pieces start coming together, the answer doesn’t seem to make any sense.

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1. • premium: False
   • source: Publishers Weekly
   • content: "[Anne Fine] produces a subtle and absorbing tale."
2. • premium: False
   • source: Kirkus Reviews, Starred
   • content: "England's Children's Laureate again exercises her unsurpassed gift for memorable, complex character studies."
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   • source: The Horn Book Magazine, Starred
   • content: "Fine outdoes herself here."
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   • source: School Library Journal, Starred
   • content: "Completely absorbing."
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     November 17, 2003
     As the boy narrator sits at the hospital bedside of his unconscious friend who has sustained a concussion, he pieces together anecdotes of their shared times, and the darker side of his friend's life starts to emerge. PW
     wrote in a starred review, "The author mixes equal measures of humor and poignancy into this novel about friendship between two very different yet inseparable boys." Ages 10-up.

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     Starred review from June 17, 2002
     Fine (The Tulip Touch) mixes equal measures of humor and poignancy into this novel about a friendship between two very different yet inseparable boys. The tale opens as narrator Ian sits at the hospital bedside of the unconscious Stol (short for Stuart Oliver), who broke numerous bones and sustained a concussion when he fell out of a window. "He looks so—dead—for someone who has always been so alive, spilling with words and ideas," notes Ian. "If he went now, all his past stuff would shrivel, even in our minds." So Ian begins jotting a "Stol biography." The narrative shifts smoothly between past and present as it pieces together anecdotes of the boys' shared time, and a complex picture of a highly imaginative, somewhat desperate and thoroughly engaging Stol starts to emerge. As Ian describes how often his friend stays with him, sometimes for days at a stretch while Stol's parents obsess over their work, readers get their first clues about the darker side to Stol's life. Other indications come through in what Stol's teachers call a healthy case of "mythomania"; it's "like sitting around a telly that ran a different soap opera every day. He had so many lives," Ian reports. Ian's efforts to protect his friend culminate in a scene that is at once comical and moving. If the adults here come off as a bit pat, the fully rounded boys at the novel's center more than make up for them. Ages 10-up.

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