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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent anthology. I think I might have liked the second one a tiny bit better, but both are full of great stories. For some reason, some of the best stories in both are about foundlings and changelings. I loved the story about the library in the second book, and three of my favorites in this one ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72108717">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I try to pull from my TBR shelves when I go on trips, and this particular anthology has been languishing for a number of years thereupon. I found the quality of the stories to be consistently high throughout, not as uneven as anthologies often are. There are, of course, a couple of standouts, which ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70938686">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Firebirds gathers together sixteen original stories by some of today’s finest   writers of fantasy and science fiction. Together, they have won virtually every major prize—  from the National Book Award to the World Fantasy Award to the Newbery Medal—and   have made bestseller lists worldwide. These authors, including Lloyd Alexander, Diana   Wynne Jones, Garth Nix, Patricia A. McKillip, Meredith Ann Pierce, and Nancy  Farmer, tell stories that will entertain, provoke, startle, amuse, and resonate long after the last lage has been turned. And they all share a connection to Firebird—an imprint, like this   anthology, devoted to the best fantasy and science fiction for teenage and adult readers.    <p>An ALA Best Book for Young Adults    <p>A Locus Recommended Reading Selection    <p>A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age    <p>A Selection of the Science Fiction Book Club</p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Patron complaint: many of the stories were too adult to be in the YA section. <br/><br/>I agree that a couple of the stories were unpalatable--even for an adult (mostly due to violence); however, it is clearly a YA book. As always, parents should be aware of what their children are reading and mon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77723433">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Short stories by a number of really great award-winning authors, writing about magic, faerie, unreality in the face of the normal.<br/>Although written for a YA audience, these stories will entertain and amuse adults.<br/>My favorites were <em>The Baby in the Night Deposit Boox</em> by Megan Whalen Turner ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77800572">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this several years ago.  There is quite a bit of variation in quality but by and large, this is a great book for leading readers into the authors inside.  Some of the stories are wonderful.  Sadly I read it so long ago I can't remember which ones they were.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Firebirds</em> is a really nice book to snatch bits and pieces of over time, as I did, with contributions from a variety  of different authors. It’s a young adult story collection and it shows at times, but I enjoyed each of these stories. “Hope Chest” was my favorite, with “The Baby in the Night...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41543253">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This has been one of the most enjoyable anthologies that I have read in a while.  It is fairly clean and has many of my favorite authors as contributors.  One of the stories is even a continuation of a duo of books by Sherwood Smith...closure is good. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Some of the stories are absolutely amazing, such as Beauty, the retelling of Medusa, Flotsam and many others. while some though, are rather censored and frankly, I don't like that kind of fantasy fiction. In a whole, I enjoyed the book which made me read the sequel.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Beauty and Cotillion stood out in this group of short stories.  Beauty is a short story that takes place after Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I had a hard time with how dark many of the stories were or I just wasn't interested.  I did like the one story by Sherwood Smith though.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I like short stories, but as a few were intresting in this book, I think the majority of it wasn't all that great.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[So far, the stories are excellent (though I was a bit disappointed in the first deLint story, maybe my expectations were too high after reading his other work).  The collection seems more YA than I expected and, even if I don't read all the stories myself, I know just the person to whom to gift it!]]></body>
    
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