TY - BOOK AU - McCaughrean,Geraldine TI - The kite rider: a novel SN - 0064410919 AV - PZ7.M1286 Ki 2003 U1 - [Fic] 22 PY - 2003/// CY - New York PB - HarperTrophy KW - Kublai Khan, KW - Kites KW - Fiction KW - sears KW - Family life KW - Mongols KW - Circus KW - Historical fiction KW - China KW - History N1 - 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; 6.2; 5-8; Follett Library Resources; Accelerated Reader AR; MG; 6.5; 10.0; 60012 N2 - 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 ER -