McCaughrean, Geraldine.

The kite rider : a novel / by Geraldine McCaughrean. - 1st Harper Trophy ed. - New York : HarperTrophy, 2003. - 307 p. : maps ; 18 cm.

Originally published: England : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Wilson's Children, June 2003 Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010 School Library Journal starred, June 2002 Five Owls, June 2003 Book Links (A.L.A.), November 2006 Booklist starred, May 2002 Library Media Connection starred, January 2003 Books for the Teen Age (NYPL), May 2004 Publisher's Weekly, July 2002 Kirkus Starred, May 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.


China--History--Fiction.

PZ7.M1286 / Ki 2003

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