Title: The Kite Rider
First published: 2001
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.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Fiction, History, Circus, Mongols, Kites, Family, Families, Family life, Yuan Dynasty (China), Historical Fiction, Children's fiction, Kublai khan, 1216-1294, fiction, Kites, fiction, Family, fiction, Mongols, fiction, Circus, fiction, China, fiction, New York Times reviewed
Places: China
People: Kublai Khan (1216-1294)
Time periods: Yüan dynasty, 1260-1368, Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368
LC classification: PZ7.M1286 Ki 2002