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.
Now, in the afterlife, his father could spend his time doing the kinds of things he had never had time to do during his lifetime. "They are very well made," said a hollow-eyed young woman in an ankle-length tunic.
... 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 relations to comfort her. He had never seen ...
She had lowered her voice to a whisper, as if her husband might even now be eavesdropping outside his own bedroom: he from whom she had never kept a secret while he was living. "No, you don't understand — " Haoyou began.
Qing'an was not yet used to thinking of her beloved husband as an aggrieved, menacing spirit. In all her married life, the spirits had never shown any interest in the little ramshackle house hidden away in the maze of dockside alleyways ...
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| 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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