"Ruby is a twelve-year-old girl. She seems to be ordinary, but she can use magic. She can read people’s mind. She transfers to Zig Zag School where every kid uses magic. She has fantastic adventures and makes friends there.”
Elizabeth Kim is a journalist and the author of the best selling novel "Ten Thousand Sorrows", which has been chronicled in O, Oprah Winfrey's magazine.
Kim was born in Korea to a Korean mother and an American father who had deserted her mother.