Up on cloud nine
By: Anne Fine
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780385603720; 9780385600712
Subjects: Best friends; Juvenile fiction; Friendship; Dysfunctional families; Suicide
Description: While everyone knows Stol is very accident prone, this time it's far worse than usual - he is lying white and still in a hospital bed, having fallen out of a top story window. So his best friend, Ian, decides to write down everything about Stol's life, just in case; and slowly comes to a very unusual conclusion. Suggested level: intermediate, secondary.