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A Kite for Melia Author|Dave O'Hare and relentless communal decay inA girl's desire to fly a kite dovetails with her grief over losing a pet in this beautifully illustrated picture book. When Melia, a girl with light brown skin and curly hair, asks older children if she can fly one of their kites, they tell her to make her own. She doesn't know how, so she goes to the library to find out. There, she discovers a book about kites and uses it to make a beautiful triangular creation with a bow and long tail. At first, it