307 pages
English language
Published Oct. 8, 2003 by Harper Trophy.
5 stars
(2 reviews)
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.
Subjects
- Kublai Khan, -- 1216-1294 -- Fiction
- Kites -- Juvenile fiction
- Family -- Juvenile fiction
- Mongols -- Juvenile fiction
- Circus -- Juvenile fiction
- China -- History -- Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368 -- Juvenile fiction