With the help of a prince and an apprentice wizard, Wren strives to rescue her best friend, a princess named Tess, from the fortress of a wicked king. All her life Wren has hoped for an adventure. Now she has one-with a kidnapped princess, a handsome prince, and a magician. What does it matter if the princess is only Tess, her best friend from the orphanage; if the prince is a youngest son with no chance of becoming king; and the magician is an apprentice?...

Discovering evidence that someone has tampered with events in ancient Atlantis, Time Patrol operative Ross Murdock journeys back to the ancient world in disguise only to discover that technology-sabotaging aliens are also visiting there.

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.