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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Haoyou could no more have looked away than a dead man can close his own eyes. He saw the hatch cover carried up to the bow and angled so as to catch the full force of the wind. He saw its woven fabric flex and bow, and his father's hair ...
Qing'an emptied her hands of crockery, sat down beside the chicken coop, and wept, rocking her head against the splintered wood. Haoyou did not know whether it was for his father, for the dead chicken, or for want of any loving ...
This was the day after his father's funeral, and he had forgotten his father was dead. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to say it! I forgot! No! I mean, I didn't forget. Of course I didn't forget, but ..." His mother sat up, ...
The toppling firework, Wawa fetching in the unwelcome kite, the thieving seagull, the dead chicken ... It hardly seemed worth correcting her about his dream. But the face on the nightmare cormorant — fixing him with its beady eye, ...
Di Chou simply waited for the funeral, put on his longest face, and went along. He introduced himself to the head of the household as a close friend of the dead Pei, willing and eager (he said) to help his friend's widow in every 24.
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| 13 | |
| 23 | |
| 33 | |
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 |
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| 書名 | The Kite Rider |
| 作者 | Geraldine McCaughrean |
| 版本 | 圖解, 重印 |
| 出版者 | Harper Collins, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0064410919, 9780064410915 |
| 頁數 | 320 頁 |
| 匯出書目資料 | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |