The kite rider
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Geraldine McCaughrean.
Edition: 1st Harper Trophy ed.
Publisher: Harper Trophy
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780066238746; 9780066238753; 9780064410915
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
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Description: 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.
Notes: Gift of Henry G. Schwarz.