#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 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' lives, new journal entries, and an introduction by Erin GruwellNow a public television documentary,Freedom Writers: Stories from the HeartIn 1994, an idealistic first-year teacher in Long Beach, California, named Erin Gruwell confronted a room of ' unteachable, at-risk' students. Alfred Tatum to create On the Record™—a bold new nonfiction program that will inspire middle school students to read with skill, write with passion, and live with purpose. With these lives as inspiration, Erin Gruwell urged her students to tell their own stories and put their voices on the record. Their journals turned into a bestselling book, The Freedom Writers Diary. Against all odds, everyone in the class graduated from high school.The Freedom Writers Diary Teachers Guide - Ebook written by Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers.