In fact, there wasn’t a single pen or pencil in her pocketbook that wasn’t worn down on the butt end from nervous gnawing. Lately she’d been chewing on a lot of pens.
She was a pretty girl with short light-brown hair and an almost perpetual smile that only disappeared when she was upset or chewing on Bic pens. Laurie Saunders sat in the publications office at Gordon High School chewing on the end of a Bic pen. Carter, an executive director at Tandem Productions and T.A.T. In addition to the novel, The Wave has been made into a one-hour television show for ABC by Virginia L. The full impact on the students of what they lived through and learned is realistically portrayed in the book that follows. The novel dramatizes the incident, showing how the powerful forces of group pressure that have pervaded many historic movements and cults can persuade people to join such movements and give up their individual rights in the process-sometimes causing great harm to others. “It was,” he said, “one of the most frightening events I have ever experienced in the classroom.” For three years afterward, according to the teacher, Ron Jones, no one talked about it. The Wave is based on a true incident that occurred in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969. Random House Children’s Books supports the First Amendment and celebrates the right to read. Visit us on the Web! /teensĮducators and librarians, for a variety of teaching tools, visit us at This work is a novelization of a teleplay by Johnny Dawkins based on a short story by Ron Jones.Įmber and the E colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. Previously published in paperback in the United States by Dell Laurel-Leaf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, New York, in 1981. Published in the United States by Ember, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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