Binding: Paperback
Description: The Wave is based on a true incident that occured 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.
Title: The Wave
Author(s): Strasser Todd
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Barcode: 9780440993711
Pages: 143 Pages
Publication Date: 9/15/1981
Series: Laurel-Leaf contemporary fiction
Category: Religion & Beliefs