Cover image for The wave
Title:
The wave
Author:
Strasser, Todd, author.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Ember edition 2013.
Publication Information:
New York : Ember, 2013.

©1981
Physical Description:
138 pages ; 21 cm
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.
General Note:
"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.
Language:
English
Reading Level:
770 Lexile.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.2 5.0 31228.
ISBN:
9780307979124
Format :
Book