The Freedom Writers Diary

by The Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell

Broadway Books, New York 1999

This is a most unusual book in that it is a diary written by about 150 people!

It sounds a bit like a movie plot (partly because a movie has been made from the story), but the Freedom Writers is a real group of students in a Californian school in the late 1990s. Inspired by the LA riots, new teacher Erin Gruwell decides to build tolerance rather than hatred and prejudice amongst her students - her ‘going nowhere’ students. Together, they achieved amazing things ...

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