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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When she set sail, Haoyous father, Gou Pei, would be among her crew and gone for months on end. So Haoyou went with him, down to the docks, to make the most of him on this, their last day together. "When I get home this time," said Pei, ...
Word had gone out that the Chabi was testing the wind this morning, and it seemed as if every merchant in Dagu had hurried down to judge the omens for themselves. The prosperity of the whole voyage depended on how the "wind tester" ...
Why isn't he gone? "Who?" With a nod of his head, Haoyou pointed out the first mate, who was in deep conversation with the head of the family, Great-uncle Bo. There was no mistaking those buck teeth, the long necklace of mummified ...
As they spoke their platitudes, they thrust their empty rice-wine cups and plates of baked meats into the widow's hands, such was their hurry to be gone. Even the hollow-eyed girl seemed to have fled the blighted party.
"I weep for your sorrows," she said, and was gone, skittering out into the lane on her litde wooden pattens. With some part of his brain, Haoyou was aware that only she, out of all the women at the funeral, had been wearing pattens ...
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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 |
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