Students Bring Teenager Who Wrote About Sarajevo to L.A.

Filipovic's diary, with its details of a violent Serbian siege, was required reading for the class, which focuses on young people taking a stand against injustice. Earlier this month they met Miep Gies, the Dutch woman who helped hide the family of Anne Frank during the Holocaust.

"I chose books by a teenage author for a teenage audience, not realizing that [the students] were going to meet the actual authors," teacher Erin Gruwell said.

The class plans to show documentaries on the Holocaust, and a trip to the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance.