The kite rider

McCaughrean, Geraldine

The kite rider - New York Harper Trophy 2003 - 307 p.

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.

9780064410915

China History Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368 Kublai Khan 1216-1294