The Kite Rider
Kites
Mongols
Circus, fiction
Circus
China, fiction
Family, fiction
Historical fiction
Family life
Family
Families
New York Times reviewed
Children's fiction
Juvenile fiction
History
Fiction
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.
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