The Kite Rider

By Geraldine McCaughrean

Subjects: Kites, fiction, History, Family life, Juvenile fiction, Mongols, fiction, Historical Fiction, Kites, Fiction, Families, Yuan Dynasty (China), Children's fiction, Circus, Family, fiction, China, fiction, Family, New York Times reviewed, Mongols, Circus, fiction, Kublai khan, 1216-1294, 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.