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The Freedom Writers diary : how a teacher and 150 teens used writing to change themselves and the world around them
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As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School in Long Beach, California. Erin Gruwell confronted a room of "unteachable, at-risk" students. One day she intercepted a ...
As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School in Long Beach, California. Erin Gruwell confronted a room of "unteachable, at-risk" students. One day she intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature, and angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust - only to be met by uncomprehending looks ... With powerful entries from the students' own diaries and a narrative text by [her, this book] is an uplifting, unforgettable example of how hard work, courage, and the spirit of determination changed the lives of a teacher and her students.-Back cover.
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- Creator
- the Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell ; foreword by Zlata Filipovic
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- English
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- Movie tie-in edition
- New York : Broadway Books, [2006]
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- xvii, 292 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780767924900, 0767924908
- OCLC
- ocm76921488
- "Now a major motion picture from Paramount Pictures. Starring Hilary Swank"--Cover.
- Excerpt from Gruwell's forthcoming book Teach with your heart: p. [283]-290.
- Freshman year, Fall of 1994 -- Freshman year, Spring 1995 -- Sophomore year, Fall 1995 -- Sophomore year, Spring 1996 -- Junior year, Fall 1996 -- Junior year, Spring 1997 -- Senior year, Fall 1997 -- Senior year, Spring 1998