by Morton Rhue, National Geographic Learning, Todd Strasser
For more reviews, check out my blog: Craft-CycleWhile the book is written in a simple way without much character development, its story is so eerie and engrossing that it is easy to get caught up in it regardless. I didn't much care for the writing (perhaps because it is intended for a younger audie...
This chilling story ought not to be necessary, since anyone looking at the history of Nazism could see that the German people were no more evil than any other people. Inevitably though it is instructive to see a psychological of totalitarian control played out in the context of an American high scho...
Scary.
"You thought you were so special!" Ross told them. "Better than everyone outside of this room. You traded your freedom for what you said was equality. But you turned your equality into superiority over non-Wave members. You accepted the group's will over your own convictions, no matter who you had t...
Mich persönlich hat das Buch eher enttäuscht. Obwohl ich den Film nicht kenne (dadurch also nicht voreingenommen bin), hatte ich von dem Buch etwas mehr erwartet. Mir fehlte einwenig die Spannung, ein wenig die Ernsthaftigkeit der Lage, die Eskalation...Nichts von dem kam richtig rüber und das Buch ...
I read this book while on a family trip to Washington, D.C., shortly after visiting the Holocaust museum (which is, in fact, where my mom bought it -- in the gift shop -- and is it weird that the Holocaust museum has a gift shop? Even if the proceeds go to the museum?).Perhaps that wasn't the best t...
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