Eleven-year-old Ian and his Vietnam veteran father have been homeless for years, but now his father has found a perfect place for them -- an abandoned city courthouse with heat, plenty of bathrooms, and lots of exits and entrances.Then, two things happen that threaten Ian's fragile security -- his father disappears, leaving Ian to fend for himself with the survival skills he's learned through the years, and Ian discovers that a local museum is mounting an exhibition of kites in the courthouse.Suddenly, Ian's safe hideaway is filled with people -- and with extraordinary, beautiful kites that spark Ian's imagination and draw him out of his shadow existence. Will the kites be Ian's downfall -- or his salvation?

 

There are 160 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Simon & Schuster Ltd .

Carol Fenner was an award-winning author of children's books, winning the Christopher Award and the Coretta Scott King Award, as well as twice being a runner up for the Newbery Award. Kathleen M Peyton is a top-selling author of more than thirty novels and is a winner of both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Award. She lives in Essex with her husband. Christine Pullein-Thompson was born in 1925 and wrote over 100 books, a great many of which were about horses and ponies.