Firebirds Soaring: An Anthology of Original Speculative Fiction

10 best books like Firebirds Soaring: An Anthology of Original Speculative Fiction (Sharyn November): What My Mother Doesn't Know, The Boy Who Steals Houses, Found, The Tiger at Midnight, Sent, Sabotaged, The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm, Snow, Glass, Apples, The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales

What My Mother Doesn't Know
AuthorSonya Sones
ISBN0689855532
*another rewrite*

I found Sonya Sones in our library on one bored snowy day and I won't lie.. the titles of the books caught my eye. And now I'm lost. I love her writing and her style and her voice and at the same time envy all of that too. I just re-read this book because the sequel came out and I wasn't...
The Boy Who Steals Houses
AuthorC.G. Drews
ISBN1408349922
Can two broken boys find their perfect home?

Sam is only fifteen but he and his autistic older brother, Avery, have been abandoned by every relative he's ever known. Now Sam's trying to build a new life for them. He survives by breaking into empty houses when their owners are away, until one day...
Found
AuthorMargaret Peterson Haddix
ISBN1416954171
Thirteen-year-old Jonah has always known that he was adopted, and he's never thought it was any big deal. Then he and a new friend, Chip, who's also adopted, begin receiving mysterious letters. The first one says, "You are one of the missing." The second one says, "Beware! They're coming back to get you."

Jonah,...
The Tiger at Midnight
AuthorSwati Teerdhala
ISBN0062869213
A broken bond. A dying land. A cat-and-mouse game that can only end in bloodshed.

Esha is a legend, but no one knows. It’s only in the shadows that she moonlights as the Viper, the rebels’ highly skilled assassin. She’s devoted her life to avenging what she lost in the royal coup, and now...
Sent
AuthorMargaret Peterson Haddix
ISBN1416954228
Jonah and Chip have barely adjusted to the discovery that they are actually the missing children of history when a time purist named JB sends them, along with Katherine and Alex, hurtling back in time to 1483. JB promises that if they can fix history, they can all return to their present-day lives. Now...
Sabotaged
AuthorMargaret Peterson Haddix
ISBN1416954244
After helping Chip and Alex survive 15th century London, Jonah and Katherine are summoned to help another missing child, Andrea, face her fate. Andrea is really Virginia Dare, from the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Jonah and Katherine are confident in their ability to help Andrea fix history, but when their...
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest
AuthorEllen Datlow
ISBN0142400297
One of our most universal myths is that of the Green Man, the spirit who stands for Nature in its most wild and untamed form. Through the ages and around the world, the Green Man and other nature spirits have appeared in stories, songs, and artwork, as well as many beloved fantasy novels, including Tolkien's...
AuthorEllen Datlow
ISBN0142404063
Faeries, or creatures like them, can be found in almost every culture the world over--benevolent and terrifying, charming and exasperating, shifting shape from country to country, story to story, and moment to moment. In The Faery Reel, acclaimed anthologists Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have...
Snow, Glass, Apples
AuthorNeil Gaiman
*3.5 stars*



Oh my! Snow, Glass, Apples is some twisted, dark and creepy fairytale retelling of Snow White, lovely and dear Snow White. In this short story written by the critically acclaimed author Neil Gaiman, she is pure and innocent no more. Better watch out: the mask she wears might...
AuthorEllen Datlow
ISBN0670061948
Coyote. Anansi. Brer Rabbit. Trickster characters have long been a staple of folk literature, and are a natural choice for the overarching subject of acclaimed editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's third mythic anthology. The Coyote Road features a remarkable range of authors, each with his...
AuthorJack Dann
ISBN0425215180
Never-before-published stories by Neil Gaiman, Eoin Colfer, Garth Nix, and a magical lineup of writers.

Throughout the ages, the wizard has claimed a spot in human culture-from the shadowy spiritual leaders of early man to precocious characters in blockbuster films. Gone are the cartoon...
One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies
AuthorSonya Sones
ISBN1416907882
My name is Ruby. This book is about me.

It tells the deeply hideous story

of what happens when my mother dies

and I'm dragged three thousand miles away

from my gorgeous boyfriend, Ray,

to live in L.A. with my father,

who I've never even met

because...
Unnatural Creatures
AuthorNeil Gaiman
ISBN0062236296
Unnatural Creatures is a collection of short stories about the fantastical things that exist only in our minds—collected and introduced by beloved New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman.
 
The sixteen stories gathered by Gaiman, winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards, range from...
AuthorEllen Datlow
ISBN0670011452
What do werewolves, vampires, and the Little Mermaid have in common? They are all shapechangers. In "The Beastly Bride," acclaimed editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling bring together original stories and poems from a stellar lineup of authors including Peter S. Beagle, Ellen Kushner, Jane Yolen,...
A Thousand Perfect Notes
AuthorC.G. Drews
ISBN1408349906
An emotionally charged story of music, abuse and, ultimately, hope.

Beck hates his life. He hates his violent mother. He hates his home. Most of all, he hates the piano that his mother forces him to play hour after hour, day after day. He will never play as she did before illness ended her career...
Sunbird
AuthorNeil Gaiman
I got this book, 239 of 1000, together with the Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab scent with the same name. I love BPAL, I like what I've read from Gaiman until now, so when these came up on eBay with a buy-now prize I could afford (there are advantages of living in Europe, most US based people don't look at European...
The Bridge
AuthorJane Higgins
ISBN1921758333
Nik is still in high school but destined for a great career with the Internal Security and Intelligence Services. But when ISIS comes recruiting, everyone is shocked when he isn't chosen. There must be an explanation, but no one will talk about it. Then the school is bombed and the hostiles take the bridges....
Moonrise
AuthorSarah Crossan
Seventeen-year-old Joe hasn't seen his brother in ten years. Ed didn't walk out on the family, not exactly. It's something more brutal.

Ed's locked up -- on death row.

Now his execution date has been set, and the clock is ticking. Joe is determined to spend those last weeks with his brother,...
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