Presents award-winning science fiction and fantasy stories, including a comic-book-style adaptation of a traditional ballad, all by authors connected with Firebird Books including Lloyd Alexander, Meredith Ann Pierce, Emma Bull, and thirteen others.

Cotillion / by Delia Sherman -- The baby in the night deposit box / by Megan Whalen Turner -- Beauty / by Sherwood Smith -- Mariposa / by Nancy Springer -- Max Mondrosch / by Lloyd Alexander -- The fall of Ys / by Meredith Ann Pierce -- Medusa / by Michael Cadnum -- The black fox / by Emma Bull (adaptation) ; and Charles Vess (illustrations) -- Byndley / by Patricia A. McKillip -- The lady of the ice garden / by Kara Dalkey -- Hope chest / by Garth Nix -- Chasing the wind / by Elizabeth E. Wein -- Little Dot / by Diana Wynne Jones -- Remember me / by Nancy Farmer -- Flotsam / by Nina Kiriki Hoffman -- The flying woman / by Laurel Winter.