Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic
	Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
	Night by Elie Wiesel
	The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
	The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
	Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
	The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
	Living Up the Street by Gary Soto
	The Color Purple by Alice Walker
	The Wave  by Todd Strasser

These are some of the authors that the Freedom Writers have read and enjoyed after high school:

Baca, Jimmy Santiago
Baldwin, James
Bradbury, Ray
Burciaga, Jose Antonio
Campbell, Bebe Moore
Chandler, Raymond
Cisneros, Sandra
Eggers, Dave
Erdrich, Louise
Kaplan, Cynthia
Lee, Harper
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
Morrison, Toni
Orwell, George
Rodriguez, Luis J.
Sedaris, David
Soto, Gary
Williams, Saul