The Kite Rider

Geraldine McCaughrean First published 2001

About this book

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

  • children's fiction
  • china, fiction
  • circus
  • circus, fiction
  • families
  • family
  • family, fiction
  • family life
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • history
  • juvenile fiction
  • kites
  • kites, fiction
  • kublai khan, 1216-1294, fiction
  • mongols
  • mongols, fiction
  • new york times reviewed
  • yuan dynasty (china)