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1) Bird
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Miranda, a small, delicate girl easily carried off by the wind, lands at Bourne Manor on the coast of Lake Champlain and is raised by the dour Wysteria Barrows, but she begins to believe rumors that the Manor is cursed and, aided by a new friend and kites secreted in an attic, seeks to escape.
Author
Series
Curious George original adventures volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After a day of playing with a ball, fishing at the lake, and losing a baby rabbit, Curious George needs to be rescued when he tries to fly a kite.
5) Super Duck
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When, in rhyming text, Duck and his long-suffering friends, Frog, Sheep and Goat, attempt to fly a kite, chaos results. Frog is pulled into the sky as the kite files away and Duck jumps to rescue him.
6) Stuck
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Floyd's kite gets stuck in a tree, he tries to knock it down with increasingly larger and more outrageous things.
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Set in fifteenth-century Korea, two brothers discover a shared passion for kites. Kee-sup can craft a kite unequaled in strength and beauty, but his younger brother, Young-sup, can fly a kite as if he controlled the wind itself. Their combined skills attract the notice of Korea's young king, who chooses Young-sup to fly the royal kite in the New Year kite-flying competition.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
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.
11) King for a day
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Even though he is confined to a wheelchair, a Pakistani boy tries to capture the most kites during Basant, the annual spring kite festival, and become "king" for the day. Includes an afterword about the Basant festival"--Provided by publisher.
14) Lucky song
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The song a little girl hears describes her kite-flying adventure.
15) Just a kite
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Hoping to participate in the Critterville Kite Flying Contest, Little Critter busily attempts to fly a kite and finds the activity more challenging than anticipated.
17) The flyaway kite
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Description
This parable teaches the need to be connected to God as it tells the story of a kite which breaks away from the boy who made and loves it.