This could be linked with a school counselor's lesson on acceptance, depression, or suicide. Each group should discuss why they thought what they did.Ģ. The class should split into groups and look through various novels to decide what point of view they were written in. This story is told in first person by one of the main characters, Ian. The teacher can introduce "Points of View". He flashes back to better and crazier times with Stolly, trying to put the pieces of Stolly's life back together.ġ.
Ian spends a lot of time analyzing Stolly's life, trying to figure out why he jumped from his nanny's window.
Stolly is in the hospital because he "fell" from his nanny's room on the third story of his house. The setting of the book rotates between Stolly's hospital room and different memories Ian has of Stol and him. Stolly has a quirky personality and his wild imagination gets him into a lot of accidents. Ian's parents accept Stolly as part of their own family and take care of him when his own parents aren't around. Stolly's parents are not around much because his father is a busy lawyer and his mother works in the fashion business and is often on location. This book is about best friends Ian James and Stuart "Stolly" Oliver. This book is appropriate for fifth grade students and older. Stolly has a quirky pe Up on Cloud Nine by Ann Fine is a bibliotherapy novel that addresses the issue of suicide. Up on Cloud Nine by Ann Fine is a bibliotherapy novel that addresses the issue of suicide. (I can’t really say too much more without getting into spoiler city, so we’ll leave it there.). Whilst that might be something that actually happens, it seemed to sensational and prevented Stolly from moving on in the best way. A lot of it was to do with the fact that Ian covered for Stolly. The right message wasn’t put across in quite the right way. The way the novel dealt with the issues at hand was wrong, I feel. There was only one thing that annoyed me and that was the ending. Cheerful, yet it’s as if you’re looking at the sun through a thunderstorm as night approaches. A brilliant oddball, but still an oddball. And yet it took me years to finish this one. Whenever I mention her my dearest mother always says, “Oh! Anne Fine! I love her books!” And my mum doesn’t say that much about children’s/young teen’s authors. Revitalising, refreshing, and utterly unexplainable.Īnne Fine is simply a wonderful author. Emerging from this book is like emerging from the sea when you thought you’d drowned. Ian is a very agreeable narrator and his recollections are deeply immersing. ‘Up On Cloud Nine’ is one of those books. You’re not being told the story- you’re simply listening in to their thoughts. Then there are some books that are so deeply personal it’s like you are a forgotten thought in the protagonist’s brain. There are some books that are grand, sweeping, worldly books. But as Ian spends his time by Stolly’s bed, he begins to write Stolly’s ‘sort of biography.’ In doing so, he starts to explore the reasons why just maybe Stolly might not have fallen at all. Ian insists it must have been an accident, just like everything else in Stolly’s ten foot tall medical file. Stolly- noted ‘eccentric’ and best friend of Ian- has fallen out of a top-floor window. Then there are some boo What a strange little book.
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