Kite (novel)
Kite is a young adult novel about red kites by Melvin Burgess. It contains 15 chapters and was first published in 1997.
When Taylor Mase steals 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.