The kite rider /
by Geraldine McCaughrean.
- 1st pbk ed.
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- 212 p. : maps ; 20 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.