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Original Title:	The Wave
ISBN:	0440993717 (ISBN13: 9780440993711)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	David Collins, Laurie Saunders, Amy Smith, Ben Ross, Robert Billings, Christy Ross
Literary Awards:	Preis der Leseratten des ZDF (1984)

The Wave Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 138 pages

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The Wave is based on a true incident that occurred in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969. The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classroom when history teacher Burt Ross introduces a "new" system to his students. And before long The Wave, with its rules of "strength through discipline, community, and action", sweeps from the classroom through the entire school. And as most of the students join the movement, Laurie Saunders and David Collins recognize the frightening momentum of The Wave and realize they must stop it before it's too late.

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Title	:	The Wave
Author	:	Todd Strasser
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 138 pages
Published	:	March 2005 by Laurel Leaf Books (first published 1981)
Categories	:	Young Adult. Fiction. Academic. School. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classics

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This book, written under the pen name of Morton Rhue in the United States, is a novelisation of the telemovie of the same name, which was based on a short story by Ron Jones about a real event.In 1969 a high school history teacher, Ben Ross, was working in a small "all-American" town teaching his class of grade 12 students about the second World War. After showing them a film on Adolf Hitler, the Nazis and concentration camps, his students couldn't understand why the German people hadn't

In high school, everyone in my class said that they couldn't believe that so many German citizens went along with the atrocities of the Holocaust. They all claimed that if they'd been alive during that time, they'd have rebelled, they'd have saved Anne Frank... basically that they wouldn't have agreed to do it. It was around this same time that I picked up 'The Wave'. Knowing that it was real sent shivers down my spine. It still does to this day.The book's plot surrounds a young teacher named

This book is what happens when an adult who TOTALLY HAS AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE, YOU GUYS tries to write a book for teenagers. It was written in 1981 and it was about an experiment gone wrong that actually happened in Palo Alto California called the Third Wave. So basically it's what happens when a high school history teacher tries to show his students that nobody's immune to fascism and introduces teh principles in his class and it catches like wild fire and suddenly the entire student body is

This book was very good. I got really absorbed into it. It was an interesting topic, and the fact that it happened for real, made it even more interesting. This novel helped me to see how "good people" can do "bad things", without realizing how terrible they were being. It doesn't justify or apologize for these actions, but it shows how naturally horrific events can happen.When you finish reading the book, you have that feeling like "Wow That ACTUALLY happened?" It is very sad that this

The Wave is a 1981 young adult novel by Todd Strasser. Todd Strasser was born in 1950 in America who wrote more than 140 young-adult novels and many short stories and works of non-fiction, some under the pen name Morthon Rhue and T.S. Rue.In the Wave, we can regard the way that a simple class test can finish in such a dramatically way. The book begins with only a class about 30 pupils which all of them become part of the Wave. Ben Ross wants to teach the class a lesson. This lesson cannot be

A new movement is coursing through High School...discipline and strength must be maintained and enforced. This novel dramatizes an incident that took place in California (Ellwood P. Cubberley High School history class in Palo Alto, California) in 1969. As the experiment 'exits' the class there many positive features that start to take place...but what is to be done with the individuals who do not fit in? Chilling glimpse into how Nazism was able to spread.

I have wanted to read this book since seeing the movies a few years ago. In terms of plot it is alright, detailing a school's rapid descent into blind and hurtful obedience under the pretext of unity, equality, and action. But the writing is tepid at best.The fact that it is based on a true story is the only reason to read it.