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Young adult literature is lousy with rewritten fairy tales, but many of them just rehash the clichés. The Phoenix Dance is one of the exceptions: an intelligent revision of a fairy tale that captivates because it alters the original in surprising ways. But this is more than a beautifully rewritten fairy tale — it is also the story of a teenage girl struggling to understand herself.