![]() the “first and the best in the YA genre”. The publishers are relaunching a collection of older YA novels, rebranded as “ The Originals” i.e. I got this novel as part of a marketing campaign from Penguin UK. It’s an interesting book, based on a real-life experiment – but I didn’t find it a particularly good, well-written book. ![]() I am not sure I am able to pick another word for the experience of reading The Wave. How did I get this book: copy from the Publisher 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. And before long The Wave, with its rules of “strength through discipline, community, and action”, The Wave sweeps from the classroom through the entire school. ![]() ![]() 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. The Wave is based on a true incident that occured in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969. Publication Date: 2016 (original publication date 1981) ![]()
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