The kite rider : a novel /
by Geraldine McCaughrean.
- 1st American ed.
- New York : HarperCollins, 2002.
- xi, 272 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Originally published: England : Oxford University Press, 2001.
School Library Journal starred, June 2002 Booklist starred, May 2002 Publisher's Weekly, July 2002 Kirkus Starred, May 2002 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), July 2002 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), June 2002 Kliatt, July 2002
In thirteenth-century China, after trying to save his widowed mother from a horrendous second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider and ends up meeting the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan.
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Kublai Khan, 1216-1294 --Fiction.
Kites--Fiction. Family life--Fiction. Mongols--Fiction. Circus--Fiction. Historical fiction.