Firewheel

Age: 15 years and I'm still here. Current career aspiration: Journalism or teaching. Display name: Firewheels are the most beautiful flowers I've seen on Wikipedia and Flickr. I intend to grow them someday as they thrive in the great ol' state of Illinois. My name's Alexandra. Call me Alex. Favorite books: The Book Theif, The Year of Secret Assignments, A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, The Sweet Far Thing, Harry Potter, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, Uglies, Nineteen Minutes, the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, East, Memoirs of a Geisha, All Quiet on the Western Front, If I Should Die Before I Wake ------ Top Contributor in Books & Answers from 1/25/09-3/??/09. "I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who." -Rudyard Kipling "Google helps, too." -Me