The Freedom Writers Diary (20th Anniversary Edition): How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them

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Their stories speak to young people who feel as if those around them do not care about their lives, their feelings, and their struggles. " Format: ISBN: 9780385494229Publish/Release date: October 12, 1999Publisher: Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Number of pages: 316Width (mm): 133Height (mm): 203Depth (mm): In the two decades since its original publication, the book has sold more than one million copies and inspired a major motion picture Freedom Writers. She had intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature and angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust. Over twenty years ago, Erin Gruwell's first-ever class of high school students in Long Beach, California was labeled "unteachable"--but she saw past that. Unless labeled "New", all of our books are second-hand. In 1994, an idealistic first-year teacher in Long Beach, California, named Erin Gruwell confronted a room of "unteachable, at-risk" students.