Saving Gracie: How One Dog Escaped the Shadowy World of American Puppy Mills

This touching narrative uses the poignant makeover of Gracie, a sickly Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, to tell the story of America's hidden puppy mills-commercial kennels that breed dogs in horrific living conditions and churn out often-diseased and emotionally damaged puppies for sale.

Saving Gracie chronicles how one little dog is transformed from a bedraggled animal worn out from bearing puppies into a loving, healthy member of her new family; and how her owner, Linda Jackson, is changed from a person who barely tolerated dogs to a woman passionately determined not only to save Gracie's life, but also to get the word out about the millions of American puppy mill dogs who need our help.

• A touching story of survival and redemption
• Written by award-winning journalist Carol Bradley
• Newsworthy issues call animal lovers to action

Join journalist Carol Bradley as she draws back the curtain on the world of illegal puppy production in Saving Gracie.

Author: Carol Bradley
Publisher: Howell Books
Published: 03/01/2010
Pages: 243
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.58w x 0.86d
ISBN: 9780470447581

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/04/2010 pg. 41
Library Journal 02/01/2010 pg. 88
People Weekly 03/08/2010 pg. 51

About the Author
Carol Bradley is a former newspaper reporter who studied Animal Law as a 2004 Nieman Fellow at Harvard. She spent twenty-six years covering the U.S. Congress and state legislatures in Tennessee and New York and writing features and investigative stories in Montana. This is her first book.
www.carolbradley.com