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Gr 7-Up Imagine that Archeoptrix, the prehistoric link between birds and dinosaurs, had evolved into the dominant life-form on a planet. In Carol Emshwiller's -Quill, - representatives of that planet have secretly crashed on Earth and begun interbreeding with humans. In Kelly Link's -The Wizards of Perfil, - an orphan boy and his caustic cousin, both dirt poor and gifted with unusual psychic powers, are bought by a strange man to serve the awesome and forbidding wizards of Perfil, onl...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Anthologies are an effective taste-test approach for readers encountering authors they haven't met before; in Firebirds Rising, November presents short stories by sixteen established writers, an appetizer platter featuring Francesca Lia Block, Charles de Lint, Diana Wynne Jones, Tanith Lee, Patricia A. McKillip, Tamora Pierce, and others. The variety includes a clutch of teens kickin...Log In or Sign Up to Read More