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Author:

Strasser, Todd, author.

Title:

The wave / Todd Strasser.

Edition:

First Ember edition 2013.

Publisher:

Ember,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

138 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Social control--Fiction.
Social pressure--Fiction.
Group identity--Fiction.
High school students--Fiction.
High schools--Fiction.
Authoritarianism--Fiction.
Violence--Fiction.
History teachers--Fiction.

Notes:

"The classroom experiment that went too far"--Cover. "This work is a novelization of a teleplay by Johnny Dawkins based on a short story by Ron Jones"--Title page verso. "The Wave is based on a true incident that occurred in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969"--Foreword.

Summary:

When history teacher Ben Ross starts a classroom experiment, with the intention of showing students the processes behind social control in Nazi Germany, things get out of hand and the power of group pressure becomes a frightening reality.

ISBN:

1451795505
9781451795509
0307979121 (pbk.)
9780307979124 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)793220603

Locations:

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

AHPD597 -- Chariton Public Library (Chariton)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

VCPD034 -- Robey Memorial Library-Waukon (Waukon)