Kite
Melvin Burgess(Author)
Puffin Books (Publisher)
Published on 25. March 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-14-130041-2 (ISBN)
Description
This is the story of a Kite, hand reared in secret by a young boy, Taylor, after an egg-hunting mission goes wrong and the mother bird abandons her nest. Not everyone wants to protect the Kite - Taylor's gamekeeper father and his employer see kites as predators on their pheasants, as vermin to be destroyed. The story reaches a dramatic climax as Tom, Taylor's father, knows he will lose his job and his home, if he fails to carry out his boss' wishes and kill the bird. He does intervene and stophis boss shooting the bird he has already cruelly injured. Tom regains his son's respect but the Kite will never fly again.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Target group
Children/juvenile
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
126 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-130041-2 (9780141300412)
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Person
Melvin Burgess, born in London in 1954, began to train as a journalist and has had a variety of jobs as diverse as bricklaying and silk-screen printing. An Enterprise Allowance Scheme gave him the chance to develop his writing and his children's books are now highly regarded. Melvin won the 1997 Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal for his powerful novel, JUNK. He now lives in Manchester.