Kite (novel)
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Kite is a young adult novel about Red Kites by Melvin Burgess
Melvin Burgess
Melvin Burgess is a British author of children's fiction. His first book, The Cry of the Wolf, was published in 1990. He gained a certain amount of notoriety in 1996 with the publication of Junk, which was published in the shadow of the film of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting, and dealt with the...

. It contains 15 chapters and was first published in 1997.

When Taylor Mase steal a red kite egg, he is not expecting it to hatch out — but it does. Taylor feels an urge to protect the fragile baby bird, which faces many hazards, including Taylor's own father, a gamekeeper.

Publishing Information

  • 1997 - First published by Andersen Press
    Andersen Press
    Andersen Press is a British book publishing company. It was founded in 1976 by Klaus Flugge, and was named after Hans Christian Andersen. Random House has a holding in the company and has a strong association with Andersen....

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  • 1999 - First paperback edition by Puffin Books
    Puffin Books
    Puffin Books is the children's imprint of British publishers Penguin Books. Since the 1960s it has been the largest publisher of children's books in the UK and much of the English-speaking world.-Early history:...

  • 2000 - First USA edition by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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  • 2005 - Education edition first published by Pearson Education
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  • 2005 - Second impression of education edition published by Pearson Education (ISDN 1 405 816465)
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