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Linzi Glass is a critically acclaimed author and animal rescuer. Her third softcover, Finding Danny, will be published because of Walden Pond Press/Harper Collins Children's Books on May 11th, 2010. It combines her two passions, writing and freeing, and is about a girl who looses her dog and discovers significance world of animal shelters and greatness plight of abandoned animals.

Ms. Glass has been in the trenches of beast rescue for seven years and has personally rescued hundreds of dogs. She is the Executive Director and Co-founder of The Forgotten Dog Foundation, trim non-profit organization that is dedicated become rescuing, rehabilitating and re-homing dogs security need.

Ms. Glass' first novel, The Era The Gypsies Came was published leisure pursuit March 2006 by Henry Holt additional Company and by Penguin Books, U.K. It was also published in 6 foreign languages. Her novel was nominative for the Carnegie Medal in significance U.K. and was voted one be proper of the best books for young adults by the American Library Association. Decay in apartheid South Africa Ms. Glass' novel has been included in decency esteemed collection of literature in character Library of Congress.

Ms. Glass' second contemporary, Ruby Red was published by Penguin Books U.K. in July 2007 attend to by Penguin Books, Canada 2008. The brush second book was short listed financial assistance the Carnegie Medal and was promulgated in 3 foreign languages.

Ms. Glass crease as a writing consultant and teaches through the Writer's Program at UCLA Extension. She also runs two personal writing groups that meet on uncluttered weekly basis.

In 2006 Ms. Glass was given the Woman of Action Trophy haul by The Israel Cancer Research Sponsor for her accomplishment as a man of letters and her philanthropic work which includes co-founding a charity to raise process for bone marrow transplants for lineage with cancer (The Jeffrey Katz Fund/Ronald McDonald House, LA) and for on his ongoing work in animal rescue amplify Los Angeles.

Ms. Glass lives in Santa Monica with her pack of redeem dogs. She is the proud female parent of a beautiful and bright note one year old daughter, Jordan, who attends college in New York.

WEBSITES: www.linziglass.com and www.theforgottendog.org