![]() ![]() The Freedom Writers realized that now more than ever, the need for community and emotional release would be too great to ignore. As the world shut down, students were some of the most impacted among us, with increased risk of depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation. You may be surprised to learn that Gruwell, the Freedom Writers, the Freedom Writer Teachers, and the students began and completed writing this book at the height of the pandemic. ![]() For the reader, the result is an intensely poignant experience of witnessing these young authors bare their truths to a mentor, friend, liberator, and in some ways, their future selves. Original Freedom Writers and Freedom Writer Teachers answer each letter with a message of compassion, understanding, and profound advice as someone of similar plight, but who has come out on the other side. In Dear Freedom Writer: Stories of Hardship and Hope from the Next Generation, set to be published by Penguin Random House on March 29, 2022, their legacy continues as readers are introduced to a new league of Freedom Writers-fifty students from around the globe-sharing deeply personal and powerful stories in letters addressed to the original Freedom Writers and dedicated Freedom Writer Teachers. What began in Room 203 in 1994 with a first-time teacher and 150 “unteachable” high-schoolers, would go on to build a lifelong community of students and educators working together, driven by the purpose of innovative learning. More than twenty years ago, millions of readers were introduced to the Freedom Writers and teacher Erin Gruwell. Their stories, featured in the #1 New York Times bestseller The Freedom Writers Diary, captured the hearts of readers everywhere and later became a major motion picture, Freedom Writers. ![]()
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