Synopses & Reviews
Lori Ries was born in Syracuse, New York, the eldest of four children. She discovered a love for storytelling as a young child and wrote her first story when she was just ten-years-old. It was a short story called "Jo-Jo the Raccoon" based on a true story about a baby raccoon that Lori?s grandfather found on the side of the road and brought home for his children to raise.