![]() ![]() There's the boy whose father doesn't think his son will succeed and offers no hope or encouragement. There's also the girl who had to bring herself up because her mother was tired of being a mother. Marcus Books The Freedom Writers Diary (20th Anniversary Edition): How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them (. ![]() Then the girl who had a really wonderful family life at one point and within a few years, the mother left, the father remarried to a woman she and her siblings couldn't adjust to soon they moved to an aunt's place who loved her a lot until her lover returned from the jail and the kids were back to square one - homeless and family-less. There's the boy whose family doesn't have a home to stay in because they are so poor. There's the girl whose parents stole her stuff so that they can fund their drug addiction. We are the largest supplier of books and eBooks to Public Libraries and Schools in Australasia. There's the student who's the sole caretaker of the family and is on the verge of eviction because he/she has to pay 800 bucks in rent and the car payment is also due. Wheelers provides an entire world of books in a few clicks. The following 300-odd pages of this book shows so well how every single student has been transformed by Erin's teaching methods, the students' life experiences, their choices and willingness to perhaps hope that maybe they'll come through it all fine. So many stories in the book are moving. : Freedom Writers : Hilary Swank, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton, Patrick Dempsey, Mario, April Lee Hernandez, Deance Wyatt, Kristin Herrera, Vanetta Smith. Would you rather wallow in depression because you are going through a life-changing mess or would you rather change the way you respond to that mess? I like to believe that I'm the only person who can control my life - of course there's the butterfly effect and then there is the case where someone else's actions can affect what happens to you, but they are usually single events, and most times, one can always decide one's reactions to such events. Now that I've read your book, I am educated. The movie was everything about changing your destiny, and all through my life, I've never tolerated the 'fate' and 'destiny' philosophies that anyone dished out to me. 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell. Who doesn't love a rebel? And I mean a good rebel - someone who succeeds in something when everyone else expected him/her to fail. I didn't have too many expectations from it, but by the end of the movie, I loved it. At that point, I wasn't too keen on reading the book, but when I saw the movie pop up in my Netflix recommendations list, I decided to check it out. I first heard of this book in Sheila's blog when she reviewed this during the Banned Books week last year. Someone else said, "She'll only last a day." ![]() "These kids are going to make this lady quit the first week," my friends were saying. I'm sure one of these days she's going to go to principal and ask for her leave, but then again, what else is new? ![]()
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