McCaughrean, Geraldine.

The kite rider: a novel / by Geraldine McCaughrean. - 1st American ed. - New York : HarperCollins, 2002. - xi, 272 p. ; 24 cm.

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 (lib. bdg.)

LCCN: 2001039522

Subjects--Personal Names:
Kublai Khan, 1216-1294 --Fiction.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Kites--Fiction.
Family--Fiction.
Mongols--Fiction.
Circus--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
China--History--Yüan dynasty, 1260-1368--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.M1286 / Ki 2002

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]