num_pages: 307
description: Up and up the wind drew him. Haoyou looked about him and saw the whole world beneath him. And it was his. The Great Miao, master of the Jade Circus, offers Haoyou the amazing chance to escape his family's poverty — by becoming a kite rider. Strapped onto a beautiful scarlet-and-gold kite, Haoyou is sent into the sky, earning money, freedom, and unexpected fame. Miao even plans for Haoyou to perform before Kublai Khan himself. From Carnegie Medalist Geraldine McCaughrean comes a dazzling story of adventure, betrayal, family, and sacrifice set in the dramatic world of thirteenth-century China. 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.
language: English
title: The Kite Rider: A Novel
titlecomplete: The Kite Rider: A Novel
genres: Fiction, Historical, Family, Adventure, Asia, China, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Childrens, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 1573
places: China
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Blue Peter Book Award
category: Best Book to Keep Forever, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Nestlé Smarties Book Prize
category: 9–11 Years (Bronze), awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
category: Jugendbuch
publisher: Harperteen