Freedom Writers
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The students of today tell their stories of adversity and growth in letters to the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Freedom Writers Diary--featuring powerful responses from the original Freedom Writers. 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. Instead of treating them as scores on a test, she understood that each of them had...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic story of an incredible group of students and the teacher who inspired them, featuring updates on the students’ lives, new journal entries, and an introduction by Erin Gruwell
Now a public television documentary, Freedom Writers: Stories from the Heart
In 1994, an idealistic first-year teacher in...
Now a public television documentary, Freedom Writers: Stories from the Heart
In 1994, an idealistic first-year teacher in...
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Overview: 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 "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...