Gou Haoyou knew that his father's spirit lived among the clouds.
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The Kite Rider
by Geraldine McCaughrean
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In thirteenth-century China, after trying to save his widowed mother from a horrendous second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider and ends up meeting the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan.
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Juvenile fiction, Fiction, History, Circus, Mongols, Kites, Family, Families, Family life, Yuan Dynasty (China), Historical Fiction, Children's fiction, Kublai khan, 1216-1294, fiction, Kites, fiction, Family, fiction, Mongols, fiction, Circus, fiction, China, fiction, New York Times reviewedPeople
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"OU HAOYOU KNEW that his father's spirit lived among the clouds."
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| August 24, 2024 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
| August 27, 2023 | Edited by bitnapper | Merge works (MRID: 75560) |
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