The Wave

By Todd Strasser

The book is about the incident that happened during the 1960's when a history professor tried an experiment on his students.

Ben Ross teaches History, and on of his senior classes, he tries an experiment on them. He introduces him to a kind of discipline that most people don't see or know. In his class, everyone must sit up straight, stand when answering a question, end each sentence with 'Mr. Ross'.

The experiment progress until a group is formed called The Wave. By the end of the week almost the whole school is a part of it. People are paying better attention in school because of The Wave. But is the Wave a good thing or a bad thing? That is the question Ben Ross must ask himself.

Something of this sort happened around 1966 in a highschool, the seniors were studying WW 2, and one of the students asked why the Nazis did all those horrible things when it was obviously wrong.

That question has never been truly answered. But this book was a depiction of something similar occurring in a highschool.

I enjoyed this book, it gave me insight to what exactly happened during the war. I would suggest  this book to everyone. It is not a happy book, it is actually rather depressing, but good.