The Wave

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Summary: This book can teach many valuable lessons!
Review: I first encountered "The Wave" in the form of an after-school special on television in the early '80's. It made a huge impression on me and I located the book, which is even more descriptive of the events that surrounded Ben Ross and his class in 1967. I just finished using the novel in a university level course on adolescent development. The students were asked to link the book to their knowledge of conformity and idealism in adolescence. Most of the students had very strong opinions of the book-some positive and some negative-but the important thing to me as an instructor was that it had an impact on them. I would recommend this book to any parent of teens or any teacher trying to get across to kids today the horrors and atrocities of the Holocaust and how such a tragedy occurred.

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Summary: Terrific for young adults (8th grade and up)
Review: I teach 8th graders about the Holocaust. Many do not initially understand why so many people could have been persuaded to follow Hitler's horrific ideology. The Wave is a wonderful story that illustrates without preaching how easily individuals can surrender their ideas for the greater "ideal."

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Summary: good book
Review: Great book. It was used in my class and we had a lot of fun with it.

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Summary: follow up
Review: My class enjoys this book a great deal.. It provides wonderful class discussion.

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Summary: Interesting
Review: I found this book to be very interesting and fascinating as I kept on reading. The book also forces through alot of different themes to us that we can think about. The ending really proves to us that yes, we can change even though we say that we won't.

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Summary: The Wave was one fo the best books I have ever read.
Review: I think that "The Wave" was a creative way to show what really happened in WW II in Germany."The Wave" is a great book that should be read by everyone. It shows how crazy things got."The Wave" is a great book for helping people understand Nazism.

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Summary: Great Book to teach Nazi Pressures on German Citizens
Review: I use this book in my classroom to teach tolerance and to show how the German citizens were pressured into going along with the Nazis. My students are always fascinated and hang on every word. They cannot believe such a thing could have occurred

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Summary: You would never expect the outcome
Review: The book starts out great, and just keeps going. It is hard to put down, once you start. It is a great book for learning a little about World War 2. Or you can read it if you are studying WWII. Or...you can just read it any time you want to. I would reccomend this book to everyone!

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Summary: An impressive and important book.
Review: The story in this book can't be repeated enough. As a history teacher, I was happy to discover this book and hope to use it in future classes. Both Junior High and High School students can learn much here from an actual example. How much are we forced to conform to standards today? It is by reading books like this that we can prevent this from happening in the future. For further reading, I recommend "Children's Story" by James Clavell and "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis.

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Summary: An important lesson
Review: I'm surprised at the reviewers who have expressed incredulity over how so many students could get caught up in such a movement. That sort of denial about the power of wanting to be part of something bigger than yourself is exactly how. That wanting can only be channeled in a safe, productive manner when we fully acknowledge and understand it and learn to control it instead of letting it control us. The readers who didn't learn this lesson are, sadly, the ones most likely to get caught up in something like The Wave.