The Kite Rider

Geraldine McCaughrean

Oxford University Press, 2006 - 232 頁

They called him Gou Tian, Sky Hook, the boy who flies. Then the Jade Circus offered him a chance to escape his enemies and travel throughout Kublai Khan's empire. But can he escape so easily and can he avoid even greater danger?

讀者評論

LibraryThing Review

用戶評語  - Shimmin - LibraryThing

It's about the adventures of a young Chinese boy at the beginning of the Mongol rule; he learns painfully and slowly that simple obedience to elders and the teachings of others isn't an answer to all ...

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用戶評語  - fatlamb - LibraryThing

Such a frustrating book to read, in an amazing why. I was drawn into this wonderful yet heart wrenching of a story. I found myself loathing multiple characters and questioning the motive/reasoning ...

關於作者

Geraldine has written over 130 books and plays for both adults and children and has won the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, Whitbread Children's Book of the Year, Smarties Bronze UK Readers' Association Award, and wrote the Blue Peter Book of the Year 2000. Not the Endof the World, won the 2004 Whitbread Children's Book Award, and The White Darkness was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Geraldine is currently taking the world by storm with Peter Pan in Scarlet, the official sequal to the classic Peter Pan.

書目資訊

• 書名: The Kite Rider; Rollercoasters Series
• 作者: Geraldine McCaughrean
• 出版者: Oxford University Press, 2006
• ISBN: 019832636X, 9780198326366
• 頁數: 232 頁