Kite Rider

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Geraldine McCaughrean: Kite Rider (2008, Oxford University Press)

224 pages

English language

Published Oct. 8, 2008 by Oxford University Press.

ISBN:
978-0-19-275528-5
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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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Subjects

  • Children's fiction
  • Kublai khan, 1216-1294, fiction
  • Kites, fiction
  • Family, fiction
  • Mongols, fiction
  • Circus, fiction
  • China, fiction