Book 1st "The wave"

The Wave

MORTON RHUE

Retold by Kieran McGovern Series Editors: Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter

Mr Ross showed the students a big picture of a wave. ‘This is a wave. A wave is something that’s always moving. We’ll call our team the Wave.’

The Wave started in Mr Ross’s history lesson. Now everybody in the school knows about it. Most students love the Wave. Ben Ross loves it too. But Ben’s wife, Christy, does not like it. She thinks it is dangerous.

In 1969 a history teacher called Ron Jones started the Wave in one of his lessons. He wanted to teach his students about the Nazis in World War II. He wanted them to understand what happened to people in Germany at that time. But something strange happened to his students! Later he said: ‘The Wave was the most frightening thing I ever saw in a school. For three years after it, no one talked about it.’ Ron Jones later wrote a short story about the Wave. There was also a one-hour television film. Morton Rhue wrote his book called The Wave in 1981.