
Catherine Alexis "Lexi" Victorias Gee is twelve years old and an eighth grader at St. James School in Madison, WI. Lexi, as she likes to be called, is the author of Preemies Rock!, a book written for parents and siblings of premature infants that describes what happens to preemies during their hospital stay. A preemie herself, Lexi was born at 25 weeks and weighed only one pound eight ounces at birth. She was hospitalized for the first 112 days of her life. Lexi researched information for her book by interviewing her neonatologist eleven years after her hospital stay. Lexi loves music, dance and reading. She studies flute, tap and liturgical dance. Her favorite books include the Twilight series, the Narnia series and the Harry Potter series. Lexi is a certified babysitter, an honor roll student, and the reigning St. James Spanish Bee champion. Lexi is a soccer athlete and she wants to be either a teacher or a veterinarian when she grows up. You can find out more about Lexi at her website: www.preemiesrock.org