false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170346731m/47304.jpg 47304 10 <p>Straight from the front line of urban America, the inspiring story of one fiercely determined teacher and her remarkable students. As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School in Long Beach, California, Erin Gruwell confronted a room of &#8220;unteachable, at-risk&#8221; 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&#8212;only to be met by uncomprehending looks. So she and her students, using the treasured books <i>Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl</i> and <i>Zlata&#8217;s Diary: A Child&#8217;s Life in Sarajevo</i> as their guides, undertook a life-changing, eye-opening, spirit-raising odyssey against intolerance and misunderstanding. They learned to see the parallels in these books to their own lives, recording their thoughts and feelings in diaries and dubbing themselves the &#8220;Freedom Writers&#8221; in homage to the civil rights activists &#8220;The Freedom Riders.&#8221; With funds raised by a &#8220;Read-a-thon for Tolerance,&#8221; they arranged for Miep Gies, the courageous Dutch woman who sheltered the Frank family, to visit them in California, where she declared that Erin Gruwell&#8217;s students were &#8220;the real heroes.&#8221; Their efforts have paid off spectacularly, both in terms of recognition&#8212;appearances on &#8220;Prime Time Live&#8221; and &#8220;All Things Considered,&#8221; coverage in <i>People</i> magazine, a meeting with U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley&#8212;and educationally. All 150 Freedom Writers have graduated from high school and are now attending college. With powerful entries from the students&#8217; own diaries and a narrative text by Erin Gruwell, <i>The Freedom Writers Diary</i> is an uplifting, unforgettable example of how hard work, courage, and the spirit of determination changed the lives of a teacher and her students. 941815 book 12 10 1999 The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them total:1796|5:595|4:652|3:406|2:118|1:25| 1796 7062 2764 451 1 4 false false Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Thu May 01 12:53:18 -0700 2008 Sat May 03 10:11:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Sat May 10 16:31:13 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 25 07:39:03 -0700 2008 Sat May 10 16:31:13 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Mon Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 03 09:24:52 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 07:44:41 -0700 2008 success stories and this is certainly one of them! My only wish is that the rest of the wonderfully creative and committed teachers out there were recognized like this one...the book its...more...]]> 2 2 false false Tue Feb 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 14 08:56:50 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 19 13:01:02 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 3 false false Wed Dec 26 15:38:20 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 26 15:43:54 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Jun 21 21:06:06 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 21 21:22:18 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 1 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun May 27 13:54:36 -0700 2007 Wed May 30 08:41:58 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Mar 25 06:53:51 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 07:01:21 -0700 2009 نمی خواهم این طور باشی.
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297 pages
ISBN 0-385-49422-x
$12.95


The Freedom Writers Diary Foreword by Zlata Filipovic is a fantastic true story book about a bunch of struggling teens trying to get out of their hard life "Getho"...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 07:56:41 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 08:50:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 13:36:18 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 14:42:29 -0700 2009 want to believe it, I'm giving it three stars.

And yet...some things just don't add up.

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This is one of these inspiring teacher books that makes me glad there are some teachers out there in public school who try to go beyond the teach-to-the-test mentality of our current D...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=47304