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Author
Publisher
Pinata Books, an imprint of Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Francisco extraña a su pueblo en El Salvador, y especialmente volar una cometa con sus amigos, pero Mamá no puede permitirse el lujo de comprar una cometa, por lo que reúne a los materiales alrededor de su edificio de apartamentos descartado y hace su propia, lo que llama la atención del dueño de una tienda y conduce a un proyecto maravilloso.
Francisco misses his village in El Salvador, and especially flying a kite with his friends, but Mamá...
4) Kite flying
Author
Lexile measure
280L
Language
English
Description
A girl describes how her family makes and flies a kite. Includes a brief history of the kite.
6) Super Duck
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st American ed.
Lexile measure
AD 530L
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
190L
Physical Desc
29 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Biscuit the puppy and his best friend, Puddles, head to the park to fly kites, they learn that it is not as easy as it looks.
13) Lucky song
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 430L
Physical Desc
24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The song a little girl hears describes her kite-flying adventure.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
39 pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm.
Language
English
Description
Addy's new life in Philadelphia in the late 1860s continues to hold surprises, as she competes in a kite festival and her teacher recommends her for the Institute for Colored Youth. Includes informational pages about the Institute for Colored Youth and how to make a kite.
18) Someone bigger
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Sam's dad says that he is too small to fly their new kite, but when Dad, the postman, a bank robber, and some zoo animals get pulled up into the sky, only Sam can save them.
20) The kite rider
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st Harper Trophy ed.
Lexile measure
900L
Physical Desc
307 pages : maps ; 17 cm
Language
English
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.