Todd strasser biography the wave

1981 novel by Todd Strasser

Not to be confused with The Waves.

The Wave is a 1981young adult novel by Todd Strasser under the pen name Morton Rhue (though it has been reprinted under Todd Strasser's real name).

It is a novelization of a teleplay by Johnny Dawkins for the movie The Wave, a fictionalized account of the "Third Wave" teaching experiment by Ron Jones that took place in an Ellwood P. Cubberley High School history class in Palo Alto, California.

The novel by Strasser won the 1981 Massachusetts Book Award for Children's/Young Adult literature.

Plot

The setting of the book is Gordon High School in Spring 1969. The plot revolves around a history teacher Mr.

Ben Ross, his high school students, and an experiment he conducts in an attempt to teach them what it may have been like living in Third Reich Germany. Unsatisfied with his own inability to answer his students' earnest questions of how and why, Mr.

Ross initiates the experiment (The Wave) i