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The Wave is a young adult novel by Todd Strasser, originally published in 1981 under the pen name Morton Rhue. The book is based on a Peabody Award-winning teleplay of the same name by Johnny Dawkins, which depicts a classroom experiment in which a teacher uses indoctrination techniques to show his students how the Third Reich achieved dominance in 1930s Germany. The Wave is a fictionalized account of a real social experiment conducted in a California high school in 1967; like many of Strasser's works, it deals with controversial themes including bullying and corruption. The novel won the 1981 Massachusetts Book Award for Young Adult literature. In addition to the TV movie on which the novel was based, The Wave was also re-adapted for the big screen in 2008 by German filmmakers.
