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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.

Edition:

Movie tie-in ed.

Publisher:

Broadway Books,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xvii, 292 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

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

Other Authors:

Gruwell, Erin.

Notes:

"Now a major motion picture from Paramount Pictures. Starring Hilary Swank"--Cover. Excerpt from Gruwell's forthcoming book Teach with your heart: p. [280]-290.

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:

0767924908
9780767924900

OCLC:

(OCoLC)76921488

Locations:

ACPD686 -- Carnegie-Evans Public Library (Albia)

GFPE771 -- Altoona Public Library (Altoona)

P4PA104 -- Aurora Public Library (Aurora) — P4PA104

ORAX826 -- Scott Community College (Bettendorf)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

YXPB162 -- Clarence Public Library (Edna Zybell Memorial Library) (Clarence)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

7CPA413 -- Crystal Lake Public Library (Crystal Lake)

VFPB334 -- Elgin Public Library (Elgin)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

MGPD463 -- Humboldt Public Library (Humboldt)

GKPC851 -- Huxley Public Library (Huxley)

RAPD371 -- Jefferson Public Library (Jefferson)

OGPC877 -- Lenox Public Library (Lenox)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

ELPC715 -- Paullina Public Library (Paullina)

ENPC715 -- Sanborn Public Library (Sanborn)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)

ZVPB675 -- Whiting Public Library (Whiting)

TBPD706 -- Wilton Public Library (Wilton)