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The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them is a non-fiction 1999 book written by The Freedom Writers, a group of students from Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California, and their teacher Erin Gruwell.
Bully: A True Story of High School Revenge (1998), Jim Schutze Bully (2001) Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas (1995), Nicholas Pileggi: Casino (1995) Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History (2003), George Crile III: Charlie Wilson's War (2007) A Civil Action (1996), Jonathan Harr: A Civil ...
An alphabiography is an autobiography, often set as an English studies project for high school or college students, consisting of a set of twenty-six short stories or chapters about the writer's life. [1] Each story or chapter has a title starting with a different letter of the alphabet, for example: "Apple growing", "Baseball", "Cynthia" etc ...
Alex and Brett Harris wrote the best-selling book Do Hard Things (2008), a non-fiction book challenging teenagers to "rebel against low expectations", at age 19. Two years later came a follow-up book called Start Here (2010).
All Boys Aren't Blue is a young adult non-fiction "memoir-manifesto" by journalist and activist George M. Johnson, [1] published April 28, 2020, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book consists of a series of essays following Johnson's journey growing up as a queer Black man in Plainfield, New Jersey , [ 2 ] and Virginia.
They follow a trio of teenagers taking a “gap year” at a Norwegian Folk High School in Pasvik, located 300 miles north … ‘Folktales’ Review: Anxious Teens Learn New Skills at an Arctic ...
The school maintained its principles of democratic education of poor people while focusing on a specific social issue – in this case, organizing workers when the government was cracking down on unions – an experience that would prove crucial in Highlander's later work in the civil rights movement.
It tells the story of Small's journey from sickly child to cancer patient, to the troubled teen who made a risky decision to run away from home at sixteen — with nothing more than the dream of becoming an artist. Stitches was a #1 New York Times Best Seller, [26] and was named one of the ten best books of 2009 by Publishers Weekly and Amazon.com.