Book
The wave
Record details
- ISBN: 0307979121 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780307979124 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
138 pages ; 21 cm
print - Edition: First Ember edition 2013.
- Publisher: New York : Ember, 2013.
- Copyright: ©1981
Content descriptions
| 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. |
| Summary, etc.: | 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. |
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| Subject: | Social control Fiction Social pressure Fiction Group identity Fiction High school students Fiction High schools Fiction Authoritarianism Fiction Violence Fiction History teachers Fiction |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Hagaman Memorial Library - East Haven | TEEN STRASSER (Text) | 31953129751288 | Teen Fiction | Available | - |
| Somers Public Library | YA FIC STR (Text) | 34042137156990 | Storage | Available | - |
| Somers Public Library | YA FIC STR (Text) | 34042137157006 | Storage | Available | - |
