Cheryl S. (egglady) reviewed on 10/17/2009

Helpful Score: 1

I thought that this was an amazing book. I went to see the movie version in theaters, and I thought that the movie was incredible. Then I found the book on here and I can say, in my opnion, that the book is so much better than the movie. It tells accounts of gang violance and racial wars in the streets of Long Beach, CA. And all the books entries(beside the first entry before each chapter, written by Erin Gruwell) were written by the real-live teenagers that went through this everyday living in Long Beach. Each entry has something to it, an unbelievable truth behind it. It tells of things that you and I only hear about on the news, but these entries were written, as a diary, by the teenagers who have been through it, seen it happen, or may have done it. The power in some of the entries has brought me to tears, and made me understand that the things that happen in this book happen everyday, and are all-too-real.

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