Kite (New Longman Literature 11-14)

by Melvyn Burgess (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2005

  $4.23

  Daily brutality is a way of life for Taylor Mase who lives on a country estate with his father, Tom, the gamekeeper. Reg Harris, the land owner, requires Tom to kill animals of prey to keep the pheasant population large enough for the hunting season. While hunting one day, nature-loving Taylor finds a rare Red Kite egg and decides to rear it in secret. However, when the cruel landowner discovers the rare-bird's existence, its fate, and Harris's, are suddenly in question...

  • Compellling, hard-hitting descriptions and riveting dialogue.
  • Manageable length and short chapters makes this book ideal for studying in class.

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $3.30

  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.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1997

  $107.27

  When a red kite egg he has stolen, unexpectedly hatches out, Taylor Mase finds himself in a desperate struggle to save the life of the rare bird and protect it from its many enemies, including his own father - a gamekeeper with orders to destroy the nesting kites.