The Kite Rider by Geraldine Mccaughrean
Up and up the wind drew him. Haoyou could hear the fibres of the rope creaking. Perhaps his kite would burst apart. Perhaps there would be no air to breathe at the top of the sky. They called him Gou Tian, Sky Hook, the boy who flies. No one had ever seen anything like it. Crowds flocked to the Jade Circus to see the Bird Boy, the Sun Swallow, Ride-the-Evening-Cloud. But it's not just being strapped to a kite and sent up into the sky that is dangerous for Haoyou. Beyond the horizon, an army is travelling east towards the circus, the army of Khublai Khan. If the show isn't good enough, the Khan will cut his head off.
Geraldine McCaughrean, who lives in Berkshire, started her working life as a secretary with a television company. She attended Christ Church College of Education from 1973-77, has worked as an editor of the Banbury Focus, and as a literary assistant. After 10 years in a London publishing house she became a full time writer in 1988, since when she has won numerous awards for her books including the Whitbread Children's Novel Award, the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, and the Beefeater Children's Book of the year.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192718600 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192718606 |
| Title | The Kite Rider |
| Author | Geraldine Mccaughrean |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2001-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Prizes | Winner of Smarties Book Prize Bronze Award 2001, Winner of Blue Peter Children's Book Awards: A Special Book to Keep Forever 2001, Short-listed for LA Carnegie Medal 2002, Short-listed for Carnegie Medal 2002, Short-listed for Blue Peter Book Award 2001 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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