The kite rider
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Geraldine McCaughrean.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Kublai Khan, 1216-1294 -- Fiction; Kites -- Fiction; Family -- Fiction; Mongols -- Fiction; Circus -- Fiction; China -- History -- Yüan dynasty, 1260-1368 -- Juvenile fiction; China -- History -- Yüan dynasty, 1260-1368 -- 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.