Alix E. Harrow
Who loved to stick out her tongue until she was thrown in a pond, is more obnoxious now but happier, one hell of a ping pong player and wouldn't be an author without Ursula K. Le Guin? Read on. "It's Zinnia Gray's twenty-first birthday, which is extra-special because it's the last birthday she'll ever have. When she was young, an industrial accident left Zinnia with a rare condition. Not much is known about her illness, just that no-one has lived past twenty-one. Her best friend, Charm, is intent on making Zinnia's last birthday special with a full sleeping beauty experience, complete with a tower and a spinning wheel. But when Zinnia pricks her finger, something strange and unexpected happens, and she finds herself falling through worlds, with another sleeping beauty, just as desperate to escape her fate." My first book report in 7th grade English class was all about Grimm's fairy tales. Everyone else did their reports on much more mode
