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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It was no great way to fall, but Pei landed awkwardly, his leg twisted under him, and lay gasping on top of the sacks of rice that were the ship's provisions. Haoyou went to the hatchway and lowered one leg over its edge, going to help ...
But a longshoreman carrying a sack of salt had set it down at the top of the gangplank and sat down to watch the testing of the winds. The gangplank was blocked. "Father! Don't let them! Let him go, you demons!
The crowd began to mix and moil, merchants shouting to their secretaries, agents shouting to the warehousemen, moneylenders offering terms of credit. The first sacks of 9.
The first sacks of salt were being carried over the springy gangplank by agile barefooted longshoreman. Haoyou was josded and pushed out of the way. Still his face was upturned, his thumbs trapped inside his fists, his eyes on the tiny, ...
flight, his heart, overcrammed with fear, had burst like a sack of grain, and his spirit had been spilled into the path of the prevailing easterly winds. Only tatters of his rice-straw jacket encircled his armpits, and the skin of his ...
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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 |