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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER \u2022 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\u2019 lives, new journal entries, and an introduction by Erin Gruwell\n \nNow a public television documentary, Freedom Writers: Stories from the Heart\n \nIn 1994, an idealistic first-year teacher in Long Beach, California, named Erin Gruwell confronted a room of \u201Cunteachable, at-risk\u201D students. She had intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature and angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust. She was met by uncomprehending looks\u2014none of her students had heard of one of the defining moments of the twentieth century. So she rebooted her entire curriculum, using\n\nThe Freedom Writers Diary\nHow a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis ;