Cloud Busting
No. of pages 176
Published: 2011
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This book has been graded for interest at 9-11 years.
There are 176 pages in this book. This book was published in 2011 by Penguin Random House Children's UK .
Malorie Blackman was the 8th UK Children's Laureate and is one of the UK's highest profile authors for teenagers and young adults. She has won the Children's Book Award and a raft of other prizes and is the force behind the annual YALC event.
"One of the most original and moving books of the year . . . an absolutely remarkable book" * Daily Mail *
"Inspired writing . . . it flows like melted butter and glistens as it goes . . . Blackman knows her verse forms and uses them to brilliant effect" * Guardian *
"It is funny and poignant and Blackman's use of language is wonderfully economic. This is a masterpiece of writing and a book for all ages" * TES *
"It soon develops into a cautionary tale about the way that both a friendship and a child's originality is destroyed by peer pressure. What makes it even more unusual is that it is told out of the mind of the boy who brought about the destruction. Blackman threads humour into the tragedy and (just) succeeds in giving us something to hope for" * Independent *
"Hats off to Malorie Blackman . . . Sheer poetry" * Oxford Times *