The Kite Rider

By Geraldine McCaughrean

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

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.