The Wave

Name: The Wave
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Todd Strasser
ISBN: 9781980062325

Author: Todd Strasser

Narrator: Michael Crouch

Unabridged: 3 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/01/2019

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Social Themes, Bullying, Dystopian, School & Education

Synopsis

This novel dramatizes an incident that took place in a California school in 1969. A teacher creates an experimental movement in his class to help students understand how people could have followed Hitler. The results are astounding. The highly disciplined group, modeled on the principles of the Hitler Youth, has its own salute, chants, and special ways of acting as a unit and sweeps beyond the class and throughout the school, evolving into a society willing to give up freedom for regimentation and blind obedience to their leader. All will learn a lesson that will never be forgotten.

About Todd Strasser

Todd Strasser is the internationally bestselling author of numerous books for children and teens, most notably the classics The Wave and Give a Boy a Gun, which are taught in classrooms around the world. While many of his novels are based on or inspired by events in his own life, Fallout — his 100th original novel — is an especially personal story. “We were indeed the only ones in the neighborhood with a bomb shelter,” he says. “This novel can be read as a memoir, both of what happened during that time and of what I feared would happen.” Todd Strasser lives in New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by mark on September 23, 2021

a simple lesson, simply told: don't let group-think turn you into a dumb fascist; be an individual. no problem with the message of course, and who'd be against that message anyway besides dumb fascists? the writing was totally uninteresting but also totally inoffensive. a small thing that really sto......more

Goodreads review by le.lyssa on August 07, 2022

Ich hab absolut nichts an dem Buch auszusetzen. Es war mega gut, erschreckend und realistisch dargestellt🤯Finde das muss jeder mal gelesen haben......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on November 09, 2008

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 cl......more

Goodreads review by Carrot :3 (on a hiatus) on September 11, 2023

2.5 stars. I picked this up cuz I found the premise interesting and that it was based on real events. The writing is really bad but this being a short book made me glad. The message intended was good but it failed in its execution with one dimensional characters. All in all, a unique short read.......more

Goodreads review by Jon on December 22, 2016

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......more