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Kite by Burgess, Melvin is a ya fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Kite about?

Taylor loves birds and collects eggs. He has the rare opportunity to enhance his collection when a pair of red kites nest nearby. The only problem is, the red kites are extremely rare - only twenty-five are left in the country. Taylor's father, a gamekeeper, is under orders from his boss, the landowner Reg Harris, to kill the kites, who are birds of prey and will go after Harris's grouse population. For Taylor, the temptation also to take the eggs from the kites' nest becomes insurmountable when Harris actually asks him to do the job, even though it is illegal. Pangs of terrible guilt follow, and although Taylor tells Harris he's gotten rid of the incriminating evidence, he secretly salvages and hatches one egg. But as soon as the bird is born, elaborate plans must be made to keep its existence a secret in order to save it from being shot during the approaching hunting season.<br> <p>Although the landowner for whom his father works as a gamekeeper hates all birds of prey, Taylor and his friend raise an endangered red kite in secret. </p>

Who reads Kite?

Author

Burgess, Melvin

Publisher

New York : Farrar Straus Giroux

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374342289

Category

ya fiction

Subjects

Children'S, Fiction, Young Adult

Rating

3.41 / 5 (46 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14