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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... of stepping out of childhood and into his fathers saltwater world. For the first rime ever, Pei took him aboard — showed him where the anchor was lodged, where the sailors slept, how the ship was steered, where the Testing the Winds.
the sailors slept, how the ship was steered, where the cargo would be stowed. And the biggest excitement of all was still to come: Soon, the Chabis captain would be "testing the wind," checking the omens for a prosperous voyage.
The ship on which his rather, Pei, was about to set sail had a Tartar name now. Last season she had had a perfectly good Chinese name, but in an effort to curry favor with the conquering barbarians, the captain had renamed her after the ...
If it flew badly, they would use some rival ship. It was for this magnificent sight that Gou Pei had brought his son to the harbor; Haoyou had asked a hundred times to see it. "I'm not sure," his mother had said.
Up and up it climbed, straight over their ship, leaning to neither right nor left but climbing higher and higher, until Pei's shape was no more than a blur beyond the range of Haoyou's eyes. He dragged his knuckles through his lashes to ...
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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 |