-
The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World around Them (Broadway Books) (Paperback)
$8.99 - Save $6.00 40% off - RRP $14.99 Free shipping worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |- Also available in...
- Hardback $19.98
Short Description for The Freedom Writers DiaryA previous edition of this book was published: Broadway Books, 1999.
Full description- Publisher: Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
- Published: 01 November 2001
- Format: Paperback 280 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Social Groups | Ethnic Minorities & Multicultural Studies | Age Groups: Adolescents | Sociology | Multicultural Education | Teaching Of Students With English As A Second Language (TESOL) | Teenagers: Advice For Parents | Religious Life & Practice
- ISBN 13: 9780385494229 ISBN 10: 038549422X
- Sales rank: 3,730
Other books
Reviews for The Freedom Writers Diary
-
Top review
Reviewed by Taylor Rector for TeensReadToo.com
This is the book that the movie "The Freedom Writers" is based on. These are the diaries of the students put into one book.
There are no names used in the book--each diary entry has a number, so that the students could feel free to write what they wanted without knowing exactly who wrote what. Personally, I think this is a great idea because the diary entries were very open and you could tell the students wrote exactly what they felt.
THE FREEDOM WRITERS DIARY is a truly excellent book, because everything is so real and most of The Freedom Writers had to grow up at an extremely early age. Many had their innocence taken away around the age of ten. The Rodney King riots were going on and the Columbine High School event occurred during the time of the book. These high school students had seen more murder and dead bodies then most people will ever see in their entire lives.
99% of The Freedom Writers have even been shot at. This is an extremely true and eye-opening statistic. Segregation is still an issue in the United States, even though many people don't have to deal with it. This book taught me a lot about tolerance and what happens on the streets of Long Beach, California.
*Gold Star Award Winner! by TeensReadToo
share
tweet
