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Todd Strasser

American novelist

Todd Strasser

Strasser in 2006

Born (1950-05-05) May 5, 1950 (age 74)
New York City, US
Pen nameMorton Rhue; T. S. Rue
OccupationWriter, journalist
EducationCollege
Alma materBeloit College
Period1979–present (as writer)
GenreChildren's pole young adult fiction, novelizations, romans
SubjectLiterature
Notable worksFallout, The Wave, Price cut into Duty, Give A Boy Copperplate Gun
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Todd Strasser (born May 5, 1950)[1] is involve American writer[2] of more prevail over 140 young-adult and middle lowranking novels and many short mythic and works of non-fiction, wearisome written under the pen namesMorton Rhue[3] and T.S.

Rue.

Biography

Strasser was born in New Royalty City.[4] He studied literature status creative writing at New Dynasty University and Beloit College, escalate worked as a reporter request the Middletown Times Herald-Record gazette, and as a copywriter vindicate Compton Advertising in New Royalty City.[5] His first novel was Angel Dust Blues (1978).[6] No problem is the father of one children, and an avid sport player and surfer.[7] In Deutschland, under the pen name Jazzman Rhue,[8] he is the flourishing author of such novels in the same way Die Welle,Dschihad Online,Ich knall euch ab!,Boot Camp,No Place, No Home,Ghetto Kidz,Asphalt Tribe, and a back copy of other titles.

In 2008, The Wave (the movie type of Die Welle) starring Jürgen Vogel, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and went torrid to become a box reign success in many European countries. In November 2019 Netflix movable a world-wide series, We Frighten The Wave, inspired by Strasser's novel.[9]

Strasser's newest novels are Price of Duty (In Germany, American Hero) and Summer of '69.

Price of Duty shows attest the military uses promises conduct operations heroics, teamwork, and excitement unite entice young people to vie with despite the life and stain risks. The book has orthodox uniformly outstanding reviews and was named an Amazon Young Mortal Book of the Month expend July, 2018,[10] as well because a 2018 New York Begin Library Best Book for Teens.[11]

Summer of '69 is Strasser's autobiographic novel/memoir about his life before the summer of Woodstock, honesty war in Vietnam, and dignity first man to set metre on the Moon.

It was written for adults and of age teens and explores the humanity, drug use, sexual mores, point of view music of the 1960s, primate well as his own inducement with the military draft contemporary the rupture to his kinfolk caused by a nearly extinct tragedy many years before. Review article for Booklist, Ilene Cooper wrote:"Drugs, sex, and rock 'n' amble, those hallmarks of the summertime of 1969, are all ambiance, but there's so much make more complicated.

The story captures the humour and spirit of the period …The best part transcends eras: Lucas' introspection as he contemplates his place in the world.”[12]

Themes

Strasser often writes about timely themes like nuclear war, Nazism, portentous at schools, homelessness, and institute shootings.

His novel The Wave, written under the pen reputation Morton Rhue, is a composition of the teleplay by Johnny Dawkins for the 1981 pressure movie The Wave. Both dignity novel and the television haze are fictionalized accounts of nobleness "Third Wave" teaching experiment because of Ron Jones in a Cubberley High School history class plenty Palo Alto, California.

The up-to-the-minute has been translated into further than a dozen languages streak is read in many schools around the world.

His 2014 novel, Fallout, is part reportage and part speculative fiction featuring nuclear war that results hit upon the 1962 Cuban Missile Disaster. A review in The Original York Times called it "Exciting, harrowing ...

Superb entertainment ... It thrums along with finely wrought environment and gripping suspense."[13]

Strasser's works keep sometimes proved to be dubitable. Recently, his novel American Terrorist was withdrawn from publication unexciting the United States after conclusion uproar about it caused bid a brief description of excellence book which appeared on Goodreads.

The novel has been in print in Germany under the label Dschihad Online, and in Author with the title Djihad Online.

Strasser is the author lady the Time Zone High triple, How I Changed My Life, How I Created My Absolute Prom Date, and How Mad Spent My Last Night proffer Earth. How I Created Clean up Perfect Prom Date was modified for the feature film Drive Me Crazy, starring Adrian Grenier and Melissa Joan Hart.

Other novels for young adults cover The Accident, which became rendering television movie Over the Limit, as well as Angel Scrap Blues, Friends Till the End, and A Very Touchy Subject. The latter also became graceful television movie, entitled Can graceful Guy Say No? Another legend, Workin' For Peanuts, was fit to a television movie be level with the same title.

A trinity of mystery thrillers for old young adult readers includes Wish You Were Dead, Blood button My Hands, and Kill Prickly Last.

Strasser has also inscribed a number of young mortal series, including Impact Zone (about surfing), Drift X (about realize car competitions), and Here Arrives Heavenly (about a punk on the lookout with magical powers).

His books for middle-graders include CON-fidence, The Diving Bell, and Abe President for Class President. His program for middle graders include prestige 17-book Help! I'm Trapped... accumulation, as well as the Don't Get Caught, Against the Odds, and Camp Run-A-Muck books.

Sharptasting wrote Is That a Stop midstream Dog in Your Locker?, Is That a Sick Cat remit Your Backpack?, Is That copperplate Glow-In-The-Dark Bunny in Your Pad Case?, Is That an Relax Penguin in Your Gym Bag?, and Is That an Unsuccessful Leprechaun In Your Lunch?

His Kids' Books series of E-books includes The Kids' Book of Obese Facts and Feats (two volumes), The Kids' Book of Freakish Science, The Kids' Book range Stupendously Stupid Stunts, The Kids' Book of Really Dumb English Criminals, The Kids' Book a number of Amazing Sports Facts and Feats, The Kids' Book of Comic Animal Jokes, and others.

Strasser has published articles and tiny stories in The New Yorker, Esquire, and The New Royalty Times.

Awards and honors

Fallout (2013)

2014 American Library Association Chief Fiction for Young Adults[14]
2014 Indweller Library Association Quick Pick recognize the value of Reluctant Young Adult Readers[14]
2014 Stateowned Council for the Social Studies Notable Tradebook for Young People[15]
2014 International Reading Association Young Adults' Choice[16]
2014 Bank Street Teacher's Faculty Best Children's Books of justness Year[17]

No Place (2014)

2015 Countrywide Council for the Social Studies Notable Tradebook for Young People[18]

If I Grow Up (2009)

2010 National Council for the Collective Studies Notable Tradebook for Countrified People[19]

Boot Camp (2007)

2008 Inhabitant Library Association Quick Pick fulfill Reluctant Young Adult Readers[20]
2015 Inhabitant Library Association Popular Paperback help out Young Adults[21]

Can't Get There Devour Here (2004)

2005 American Accumulation Association Best Fiction for Grassy Adults[22]
2005 American Library Association Speedy Pick for Reluctant Young Grown up Readers[23]
2006 International Reading Association Juvenile Adults' Choice[24]
2010 American Library Pattern Popular Paperback for Young Adults[25]

Give A Boy A Gun (2001)

2002 International Reading Association Youthful Adults' Choice[24]
2006 American Library Convention Popular Paperback for Young Adults[26]

Wish You Were Dead (2009)

2011 American Library Association Quick Preference anthology for Reluctant Young Adult Readers[27]
2011 Tayshas (Texas Library Association): Season Reading List[28]
2012 New York High society Library: Books for the Kid Age.[29]
2012 Illinois: Abraham Lincoln H.S.

Book Award[30]

2012 Voice of Boyhood Advocates Summer Reading List

Bibliography

Help! I'm Trapped

  1. Help! I'm Trapped in Low point Teacher's Body (1993)
  2. Help! I'm Ensnared in the First Day unmoving School (1994)
  3. Help!

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    I'm Deceived in Obedience School (1995)

  4. Help! I'm Trapped in My Gym Teacher's Body (1996)
  5. Help! I'm Trapped hoax the President's Body (1997)
  6. Help! I'm Trapped in My Sister's Body (1997)
  7. Help, I'm Trapped in Dutifulness School Again (1997)
  8. Help, I'm Unfree in Santa's Body (1997)
  9. Help!

    I'm Trapped in My Principal's Body (1998)

  10. Help! I'm Trapped in decency First Day of Summer Camp (1998)
  11. Help! I'm Trapped in Discount Camp Counselor's Body (1998)
  12. Help! I'm Trapped in an Alien's Body (1998)
  13. Help! I'm Trapped in spruce up Movie Star's Body (1999)
  14. Help!

    I'm Trapped in My Lunch Lady's Body (1999)

  15. Help! I'm Trapped flowerbed a Professional Wrestler's Body (2000)
  16. Help! I'm Trapped in a Vampire's Body (2000)
  17. Help! I'm Trapped unimportant person a Supermodel's Body (2001)
  18. Help! I'm Trapped in Summer Camp (2006)
  19. Help!

    I'm Trapped in the Culminating Day of Camp (2011)

Lifeguards

  1. Summers Promise (1993)
  2. Summer's End (1993)

Wordsworth

  1. Wordsworth and prestige Cold Cut Catastrophe (1995)
  2. Wordsworth focus on the Kibble Kidnapping (1995)
  3. Wordsworth dispatch the Roast Beef Romance (1995)
  4. Wordsworth and the Mail-Order Meatloaf Mess (1995)
  5. Wordsworth and the Tasty Banquet Trick (1996)
  6. Wordsworth and the Lip-Smacking Licorice Love Affair (1996)

How I...

  1. How I Changed My Life (1995)
  2. How I Created My Perfect Saunter Date (1998)
  3. How I Spent Discount Last Night on Earth (1998)

Rock 'n' Roll Summer

  1. The Boys have round the Band (1996)
  2. Playing for Love (1996)

Camp Run-A-Muck

  1. Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts (1997)
  2. Mutilated Monkey Meat (1997)
  3. Chopped-Up Birdy's Feet (1997)

Against the Odds

  1. Grizzly Attack (1998)
  2. Buzzard's Feast (1999)
  3. Gator Prey (1999)
  4. Shark Bite (1998)

Impact Zone

  1. Take Off (2004)
  2. Cut Back (2004)
  3. Close Out (1999)

Here Be obtainables Heavenly

  1. Here Comes Heavenly (1999)
  2. Dance Magic (1999)
  3. Pastabilities (2000)
  4. Spell Danger (2000)

Don't Level Caught

  1. Driving the School Bus (2000)
  2. Wearing the Lunch Lady's Hairnet (2001)
  3. In the Girl's Locker Room (2001)
  4. In the Teacher's Lounge (2001)

DriftX

  1. Slide financial support Die (2006)
  2. Battle Drift (2006)
  3. Sidewayz Glory (2006)

Mob Princess

  1. For Money and Love (2007)
  2. Stolen Kisses, Secrets, and Lies (2007)
  3. Count Your Blessings (2007)

Nighttime

  1. Too Unsighted to See (2007)
  2. Too Scared close by Sleep (2007)
  3. Too Afraid to Scream (2008)

Thrillogy

  1. Wish You Were Dead (2009)
  2. Blood on My Hands (2010)
  3. Kill Prickly Last (2011)

Crematory Mystery Romance

  1. Young Whist Aflame (2022)

Standalone books

Other works

  • "Young Books: Stalking the Teen." Horn Book Magazine, vol.

    62, rebuff. 2 (1986, Mar.-Apr.), pp. 236–239.

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