The Kite RiderUp and up the wind drew him. Haoyou looked about him and saw the whole world beneath him. And it was his. The Great Miao, master of the Jade Circus, offers Haoyou the amazing chance to escape his family's poverty -- by becoming a kite rider. Strapped onto a beautiful scarlet-and-gold kite, Haoyou is sent into the sky, earning money, freedom, and unexpected fame. Miao even plans for Haoyou to perform before Kublai Khan himself. From Carnegie Medalist Geraldine McCaughrean comes a dazzling story of adventure, betrayal, family, and sacrifice set in the dramatic world of thirteenth-century China. |
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"Di Chou should never have . . ." "Fate is hard, boy." But the Chabh captain, not wanting a death to detract from the favorable omens of the kite's flight, sent the first mate to break up the little knot of mourners.
Haoyou shouted, pummeling the flat, unyielding stomach, bruising his fists on Di Chou's leather belt. Di Chou took hold of Haoyou by the ear, and the shining flesh of his cheeks twitched with menace as he smiled down at the boy.
... Haoyou caught sight of the familiar straw sandals and sailcloth breeches of Di Chou. Someone set off a crackling rickrack firework alongside his father's i5.
How dare Di Chou come and eat the baked meats at the funeral of the man he sent to his death? Haoyou's mouth was too dry for him to choke down the rice cake he was holding. It lay in his hand, forgotten.
But the face on the nightmare cormorant — fixing him with its beady eye, gaping after him with its serrated bill — had not been his father's. It had been First Mate Di Chou, his father's killer. A Pnpml First Mate Di Chou had let the ...
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Wedding | 51 |
Tasting the Wind | 67 |
The Great Miao | 83 |
Qiqi | 93 |
AboutFace | 174 |
The Mighty Khan | 185 |
Fall from Grace | 212 |
Loyalty and Betrayal | 224 |
The Carpet | 241 |
Weapon of War | 251 |
Halflight | 266 |
Fingers | 282 |
Translation for Beginners | 105 |
The Paddy | 126 |
A Patch of Dark | 141 |
Duty | 157 |
Family | 292 |
The Thirteenth Century and Kublai Khan | 305 |