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?
Genre: Children's Fiction
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?
Genre: Children's Fiction
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