Todd Strasser

At a high school party, a girl finds her best friend murdered, only to be discovered holding the weapon and accused of the crime.

Parece ficción, pero es un hecho real. En 1969, en un instituto de California, un profesor puso en marcha el experimento educativo más controvertido de la Historia: creó un movimiento entre sus alumnos, al que bautizó La Ola, para ilustrar el auge del nazismo en Alemania y los terribles acontecimientos que este trajo consigo. Creía tenerlo bajo control, pero se equivocaba. Las consecuencias de dicho experimento se recogen en este libro escalofriante,...

"When Dan and his parents can no longer pay their mortgage, they end up homeless and living in a local tent city. It's a bad situation, and it only gets worse when the leader of the tent city is brutally beaten. Who is trying to shut down the tent city, and why?"--

The charm of the crazy Clampett clan lives on! After striking oil on his land in the Ozarks, Jed Clampett decides the sophisticated life in Beverly Hills is just what he and his kin-Jethro Bodine, Elly May, and Granny-deserve. Humorous antics ensue when they proceed to shake up privileged society with their hayseed ways. This novelization of the film features all of the favorite characters from the original series-including uptight banker Mr. Drysdale...

The Wave is based on a true incident that occured in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969. The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classroom when history teacher Burt Ross introduces a new system to his students. And before long The Wave, with its rules of strength through discipline, community, and action, sweeps from the classroom through the entire...