Todd Strasser

When an unthinkable nuclear attack occurs in an alternate-reality 1962, Scott is forced into his father's bomb shelter with his family and neighbors, where they rapidly consume limited supplies and fear the worst about the fate of the world outside.

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

There's a new after school club at Ironville Middle School. Ms. Peterson is starting a video game club where the students will playing The Good War, a new game based on World War II. They are divided into two teams: Axis and Allies, and they will be simulating a war they know nothing about yet. Only one team will win. But what starts out as friendly competition, takes an unexpected turn for the worst when an one player takes the game too far. Can...

Events leading up to a night of terror at a high school dance are told from the point of view of various people involved.

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,...

The Wave is based on a true incident that occurred 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...

Aboard the Pequod, seventeen-year-old Ishmael arrives on the planet Cretacea to hunt down great ocean-dwelling beasts to harvest and send back to the resource-depleted Earth. But the ship's captain, Ahab, who lost his leg to the Great Terrafin years ago, is obsessed with hunting down the beast. The classic tale of Moby Dick as set in the future.

Lady's pampered uptown world is turned upside down when she falls head over paws for Tramp, a fun-loving mutt with a charming bark and an appetite for adventure. Her romance turns into a nightmare when she is caught by the dogcatcher and sent to the pound.