

Ross initiates the experiment (The Wave) in hopes that it answers the question of why the Germans allowed Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party to rise to power, acting in a manner inconsistent with their own lies and sins.

Unsatisfied with his own inability to answer his students' earnest questions of how and why, 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. The plot revolves around a history teacher Mr. The setting of the book is Gordon High School in Spring 1969. The novel by Strasser won the 1981 Massachusetts Book Award for Children's/Young Adult literature. Cubberley High School history class in Palo Alto, California. 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. The Wave is a 1981 young adult novel by Todd Strasser under the pen name Morton Rhue (though it has been reprinted under Todd Strasser's real name).
