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The Kite Rider : A Novel

  • The Kite Rider : A Novel
  • Attribution

    by Geraldine McCaughrean
  • Publication Details

    Book, 1st American ed, HarperCollins, 2002
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  • Description

    The great Miao master of the Jade Circus, offers twelve-year-old Haoyou the amazing chance to change his life — to escape from his family’s poverty and the pain of his father’s recent death — by becoming a kite rider! Traveling the Empire as part of the Jade Circus, Haoyou earns freedom, money, and unexpected fame — as he skillfully performs for local villagers who believe he can bring back messages from lost loved ones whose spirits haunt the sky. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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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
  • ISBN

    • 0066238749
    • 0066238757
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