TY  - BOOK
AU  - Strasser,Todd
TI  - The wave
SN  - 0440993717 (pbk.)
U1  - FIC 
PY  - 2005///, c1981
CY  - New York
PB  - Dell
KW  - Peer pressure
KW  - High schools
KW  - Schools
N1  - "Laurel leaf books."; "This work is a novelization of a teleplay by Johnny Dawkins based on a short story by Ron Jones."--T.p. verso
N2  - A high school experiment to test social interaction backfires when an elitist group is formed. What starts as an innocent experiment brings terror to a high school. 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
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