Notes

Laurie Saunders is afraid. In only a few days she's seen her classmates change from normal teenagers into chanting, saluting fanatics, caught up in a new organisation called "The Wave". How can one person stop it? A novel about how the powerful forces of group pressure that have pervaded many historical 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. Based on a true incident that occurred in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969.