121)Īt first, Jethro is convinced these are made-up words, but once he starts looking them up, he always finds them in some dictionary if he searches long enough. "In sacks." And after a bit, "Sententious purple coriander." (p. "Ponderous plenipotential cardomum," he would say. He's very full of words, but what he says contains little sense: Jethro's got a few problems: for example, his brother Jeremy is just a little bit odd. One of my favorites was "I'll Give You My Word" by Diana Wynne Jones. For the most part that is all that connects these stories together-there's no theme or overarching mood to give the anthology a sense of unity. There are contributions by a number of well-known authors, most of whom have been published by November's Firebird imprint. Firebirds Rising is the second in what is now an ongoing series of Young Adult anthologies edited by Sharyn November.
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