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Author:

Freedom Writers.

Title:

The Freedom Writers diary : how a teacher and 150 teens used writing to change themselves and the world around them / the Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell ; foreword by Zlata Filipovic.

Publisher:

Broadway Books

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xvii, 292 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Teenagers--United States--Diaries.
Toleration--United States.

Other Authors:

Gruwell, Erin.

Notes:

"A previous edition of this book was published in 1999 by Broadway Books"--T.p. verso.

Contents:

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.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

038549422X
9780385494229
1435256212
9781435256217 (Paw Prints)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)225871124

Locations:

GMPD771 -- Pleasant Hill Public Library (Pleasant Hill)

MCPB423 -- Radcliffe Public Library (Radcliffe)