P.S. I Love You, by Cecelia Ahern
Holly couldn't live without her husband Gerry, until the day she had to. They were the kind of young couple who could finish eachothers' sentences. When Gerry succumbs to a terminal illness and dies, 30 year-old Holly is set adrift, unable to pick up the pieces. But with the help of a series of letters her husband left her before he died and a little nudging from an eccentric assortment of family and friends, she learns to laugh, covercome her fears, and discover a world she never knew existed. The kind of enchanting novel with cross generational appeal that comes along once in a great while, P.S. I Love You is a captivating love letter to the world.
Book - 512 pgs, Pub. 12/04
Movie - Rated PG-13, 2007
The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher And 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves And the World Around Them, by Erin Gruwell
Shocked by the teenage violence she witnessed during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Erin Gruwell became a teacher at a high school rampant with hostility and racial intolerance. For many of these students, whose ranks included substance abusers, gang members, the homeless, and victims of abuse, Gruwell was the first person to treat them wiht dignity, to believe in their potential and help them see it themselves. Soon, their loyalty towards their teacher and burning enthusiasm to help end violence and intolerance became a force of it's own. Inspired by reading The Diary of Anne Frank and meeting Zlata Filipovic (the 11 year-old girl who srote of her life in Sarajevo during the civil war), the students began a join diary of their inner-city upbringings. Told through anonymous entries to protect their identities and allow for complete candor, The Freedom Writers Diaries is filled with astounding vignettes from 150 students who, like civil rights activist Rosa Parks and The Freedom Riders, heard society tell them where to go - and refused to listen.
Book - 320 pgs. Pub. 12/06
Movie - Rated PG-13, 2007
Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
First published in 1939, The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. This Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of The Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm homestead by the "land companies" and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. A portrait of conflict between the powerful and the powerless, the novel captures teh horrors of the Drepression and probes the very nature of equality in America.
Book - 464 pgs. Pub. 1939
Movie - Not Rated - 1940
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