The Kite Rider
by Geraldine McCaughrean · 2001
Popularity 38
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.
Juvenile fictionFictionHistoryCircusMongolsKitesFamilyFamiliesFamily lifeYuan Dynasty (China)Historical FictionChildren's fiction