The Kite Rider x 6 Award-winning author Pack by Geraldine McCaughrean (author) (UK edition)

Think riding a surfboard is daring? Haoyou is the Kite Rider: strapped to a kite and sent into the heavens, to bring back messages from the dead. Well – a stunt like that is bound to turn heads. Soon this brave kid is winning both admirers and deadly enemies. When he’s hired by the Jade Circus, it’s a chance for Haoyou to see the world. He’ll even perform before the great Kublai Khan himself. But is the circus master leading Haoyou into deadly danger? Prophecy and fate. Ghosts and family. All the exotic sights and sounds of Ancient China. A bold classic unlike any book you’ve ever read, to set your imagination soaring.

A Blue Peter Award winner by Geraldine McCaughrean

Geraldine has won the coveted Carnegie Medal twice

Her latest winner was Where the World Ends in 2018

She is the only author to win a Costa prize three times

“A masterpiece of storytelling.” The Times

“It snatches you up from the first chapter … beautiful and compulsive.” Sunday Times

Supplied as a pack of six copies.

Product Details

Catalogue number

3791 in Education Catalogue 2023–24

Format

Paperback

Date published

March 7th, 2019

Condition

New

UK edition

In this pack

The Kite Rider
Award-winning

usd prices

Price: $10.76

gbp prices

Price: £6.99

Author/Illustrator

Geraldine McCaughrean

Geraldine McCaughrean was born and educated in Enfield, North London, the third and youngest child of a fireman and a teacher. She attended Christ Church College of Education but instead of teaching chose to work for a magazine publishing house. Her favourite assignments included the best-selling children’s partworks Storyteller and Little Storyteller. Only in 1988 did she become a full-time writer. Since then, Geraldine has established herself as one of the most exciting children’s writer’s today.

She often visits nearby schools to talk about being a writer and play story-making games, and, of course, to find out what the really important people – the readers – are thinking.

In 2004, the Great Ormond Street Hospital trustees launched the search for an author to write the sequel to J.M. Barrie’s classic children’s novel Peter Pan. Geraldine was chosen from over 200 applicants, and Peter Pan in Scarlet became a bestseller in 2006.

Geraldine and her husband John live in Berkshire and have one teenage daughter, Ailsa. In all, Geraldine has written over 140 books, mostly for children, as well as plays and poetry, and has been published in 25 languages.