As an idealistic first-year teacher at Wilson High School in California, Erin Gruwell confronted a room of unteachable, at-risk students. One day she intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature and angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust - only to be met by uncomprehending looks. So she and her students, using Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl and Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo as their guides, undertook a life-changing odyssey against intolerance and misunderstanding. This book picks up from The Freedom Writers Diary and includes what happened with the Freedom Writers as they made their way through college and graduation.