Our book is one of the most stolen books in ... all the Ivy Leagues. But they loved The Freedom Writers Diary. It was really important for them to realize that not every kid has a parent who ...

When the book “The Freedom Writers Diary” burst on the scene in 1999, sharing the experiences of teacher Erin Gruwell and her Wilson High School English classes, it uncovered both the pain and ...

made famous by the book “The Freedom Writers Diary” and the 2007 Hilary Swank movie, “Freedom Writers.” Ms. Gruwell, a first-year teacher in 1994, took a class of students largely written ...

After a push from Moms for Liberty, the Horry County School Board voted in April 2024 to ban “The Freedom Writers Diary” by Erin Gruwell from school libraries. The book was already limited to ...

The Freedom Writers Diary, a book-turned-movie, contains journal-style musings of California high school city students. Expletives and violent images often accompany their reflections of personal ...

The result was a published book of the students’ writings, “The Freedom Writers Diary,” and many academic success stories. Gruwell now runs a charitable organization, The Erin Gruwell ...

Gruwell inspired Reyes and her classmates to begin writing in diaries that were later compiled and published in the New York Times best-selling book “The Freedom Writers Diary.” One of the ...

Many of those stories were published in the bestselling book, “The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them.” Sue Ellen is ...

Her unique teaching methods culminated in The Freedom Writers Diary, a bestselling book that chronicled the journal entries of her students, many of whom experienced racial discrimination and gang ...

She thought the book - a collection of personal ... Board members pointed out The Freedom Writers Diary is not banned at Perry Meridian High School, and that there are 10 copies in the school library.