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  • Audiobook

    The Wave

    by Todd Strasser ...
    Narrated by Michael Crouch ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 40 min

    This novel dramatizes an incident that took place in a California school in 1969. A teacher creates an experimental movement in his class to help students understand how people could have followed Hitler. The results are astounding. The highly disciplined group, modeled on the principles of the Hitler Youth, has its own salute, chants, and special ways of acting as a unit and sweeps beyond the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Waste and Want

    A Social History of Trash

    by Susan Strasser ...
    An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life—throwing things out—and how it has transformed American society."Strasser reads our American history in our tea leaves—and countless tons of other domestic garbage—as she traces the changing meanings of waste and thrift from Colonial times to the present." — The Boston GlobeWinner of the Abel Wolman Award of the Public Works ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Wave

    by Todd Strasser ...
    This novel dramatizes an incident that took place in a California school in 1969. A teacher creates an experimental movement in his class to help students understand how people could have followed Hitler. The results are astounding. The highly disciplined group, modeled on the principles of the Hilter Youth, has its own salute, chants, and special ways of acting as a unit and sweeps beyond the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Never Done

    A History of American Housework

    by Susan Strasser ...
    Never Done is the first history of American housework. Beginning with a description of household chores of the nineteenth century--cooking at fireplaces and on cast-iron stoves, laundry done with wash boilers and flatirons, endless water hauling and fire tending--Susan Strasser demonstrates how industrialization transformed the nature of women's work. Lightening some tasks and eliminating the need ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Give a Boy a Gun

    20th Anniversary Edition

    by Todd Strasser ...
    Todd Strasser’s acclaimed account of school violence that Kirkus Reviews calls “vivid, distressing, and all too real.”For as long as they can remember, Brendan and Gary have been mercilessly teased and harassed by the jocks who rule Middletown High. But not anymore. Stealing a small arsenal of guns from a neighbor, they take their classmates hostage at a school dance. In the panic of this ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Wish You Were Dead

    by Todd Strasser ...
    "This suspenseful novel . . . blends the traditional with new tech. . . . [A]n impressive number of red herrings will keep readers guessing . . . satisfying." ― Kirkus ReviewsI'll begin with Lucy. She is definitely first on the list. You can't believe how it feels to be in the cafeteria and turn around and there she is staring at me like I'm some disgusting bug or vermin. Does she really think I ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fallout

    by Todd Strasser ...
    What if the bomb had actually been dropped? What if your family was the only one with a shelter?In the summer of 1962, the possibility of nuclear war is all anyone talks about. But Scott’s dad is the only one in the neighborhood who actually prepares for the worst. As the neighbors scoff, he builds a bomb shelter to hold his family and stocks it with just enough supplies to keep the four of them ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Making It Home

    Life Lessons from a Season of Little League

    by Teresa Strasser ...
    ***"This is a story about a team that becomes a family and a family that becomes a team. . . a wonderful book ." -- Cal Ripken, Jr."A MUST READ!"--USA TODAY (ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2023)***An achingly heartfelt and surprisingly funny memoir about family, grief, and moving forward.When her brother dies from cancer, and then her mother just four months later, Teresa Strasser has no one to mourn ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Conquist

    A Novel

    by Dirk Strasser ...
    Capitán Cristóbal de Varga's drive for glory and gold in 1538 Peru leads him and his army of conquistadors into a New World that refuses to be conquered. He is a man torn by life-long obsessions and knows this is his last campaign. What he doesn't know is that his Incan allies led by the princess Sarpay have their own furtive plans to make sure he never finds the golden city of Vilcabamba. He also ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Boot Camp

    by Todd Strasser ...
    In the middle of the night Garrett is taken from his home to Harmony Lake, a boot camp for troubled teens. Maybe some kids deserve to be sent there, but Garrett knows he doesn't. Subjected to brutal physical and psychological abuse, he tries to fight back, but the battle is futile. He won't be allowed to leave until he's admitted his "mistakes" and conformed to Harmony Lake's standards of behavior ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Big Questions for Young Minds

    Extending Children's Thinking

    by Janis Strasser, Lisa Mufson Bresson ...
    Questions are powerful tools, especially in the classroom.Asking rich, thoughtful questions can spark young children’s natural curiosity and illuminate a whole new world of possibility and insight. But what are “big” questions, and how do they encourage children to think deeply? With this intentional approach—rooted in Bloom’s Taxonomy—teachers working with children ages 3 through 6 will discover ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stop the Ball!

    by Susanne Strasser ...
    Illustrated by Susanne Strasser ...
    Duck kicks the ball but it flies over the net—where’s it gone? BOOM into the tree, SPLAT in the puddle, DOOGA DOOGA under the bench.Duck runs, Owl runs, Spider runs, Dog runs—they all run after the ball. Until KERSPLASH it lands in the pool. Uh-oh, there’s a crocodile in the water. It’s too late to stop the ball! Or is it?Susanne Strasser’s snowballing animal stories that children love are ... Read more

    $10.69 USD