title: Zoe's Gift
author:  Jory Strong 
description: Jory Strong has been writing since childhood and has never outgrown being a daydreamer. When she's not hunched over her computer, lost in the muse and conjuring up new heroes and heroines, she can usually be found reading, riding horses, or walking dogs.<br /><br />Her stories have won numerous awards, as well as been national best sellers. She lives in California with her husband and a menagerie of pets.<br /><br /><span>She loves hearing from readers. Visit her website at jorystrong.com or contact her at jory@jorystrong.com.</span>
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  Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010
  
  
  http://www.archive.org/details/zoeszodiacOOstep
  
  
  #  AQUARIUS
  
  
  ##  January 21 - February 19
  
  
  ### 1
  
  
  “You  won? Zoe, you actually won?” Ruthie squealed. “I don’t believe it! Let
  me see.”
  
  
  Ruthie threw her notebook to the floor, snatched the evening paper from Zoe,
  and plopped down on the bottom stair.
  
  
  “Don t tear it,” Zoe said. “Daddy has fits if anything happens to his precious
  paper.” She sat down slowly beside Ruthie and stared at her own name, in block
  letters an inch high, right in the middle of page eight.
  
  
  “Ruthie, I never won anything in my life! Well, except a gym award last year,
  and everybody got one of those.”
  
  
  “I didn’t,” Ruthie corrected, cracking her gum. “I hit Elmer with a softball,
  remember? But he deserved it. Zoe, t