It looks at friendship, the beauty of accepting people’s differences and how those differences can serve to enrich a person’s character. This article about a children's novel of the 2000s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Davey and Sam should have gone to the park to go Cloud Busting together and become best friends again, this time not in secret. I loved this book because it is a poem book. this fiction book is good and my favourite character is Alice because she's pretty and nice. I would recommend this book to my friends. Davey, or 'Fizzy Feet', is a new boy. Everyone hates him. He has holes in his jumper, and strange ideas fill his mind. Sam, the school bully, makes fun of him. He dislikes Davey at least as much as everyone else until Davey saves his life by pulling him from in front of a speeding vehicle. The two soon become friends.

What actually happened was Sam Cloud Busting alone. Davey, telling no one, slipped away and left Sam alone thinking hard. drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidenceThis text follows the relationship of Sam and Davey, where they have a complex friendship. The text considers themes such as friendship and kindness, but also of bullying. It also considers issues such as allergies and could help children to recognise the seriousness of allergies and also raise awareness on what to do if someone suffers from a reaction, as I feel there will always be at least one child in a school who may require an epi-pen. The novel won the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Silver Award [1] and was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. [2] Plot [ edit ] At the start of this lesson, children will discuss the secret shared by Davey and the promise made by Sam at the end of the last chapter they read together, as well as their predictions for what might happen next. Encourage students to visit somewhere local to them and with which they are already very familiar – perhaps a park, shopping centre or churchyard – and describe it as Davey might, by combining imaginative use of their senses with the most creative language they can generate.

Don't quite know why I haven't read this before. However, I'm really glad I came across it on a bookshelf in a classroom. give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes, including for expressing feelings My friend lent me this book. I enjoyed reading it as the book was written in a different way to the books I normally read. The whole book is written is verse and is very easy to read as the words flow. The story was sad in places and shows you the importance of friendship. Cloud Busting is a story about Dave who is a new student in the school who stays few doors away from Sam’s house and Sam who is a bully. It is a well-written, easy-to-read tale written in poetic form. It is a story about friendship, emotions, love, and bullying and peer pressure. I found the characters very believable, especially Dave and Sam themselves. They're not perfect but they're still likable characters who are easy to relate to on some level—even if you don't identify with them 100%. Davey is the new boy in class and Sam can't stand him. He thinks Davey is a Grade A moron. But when the two are thrown together Sam discovers that Davey's eccentric way of looking at the world makes life a lot more fun. Until the day something terrible happens...They can't see themselves in the mirror, so they don't know how beautiful they are. But no one can see them but you and me. Sam changes dramatically through the book. Is it for the better? He used to fit in; now he doesn’t: what does he have instead? Consider how people change; how might you change, in the next few years? Thank you for taking the time to create and post this superb resource. It's fabulous. thank you! Having delved into his conscience, recreate the scene with Sam, Alex and Davey in simple freeze-frame, and have children suggest the thoughts going through each character’s mind. Take suggestions, too, on body language for each boy at that dreadful moment. explain and discuss their understanding of what they have read, including through formal presentations and debates, maintaining a focus on the topic and using notes where necessary