How I Created My Perfect Prom Date was adapted for the feature film Drive Me Crazy, starring Adrian Grenier and Melissa Joan Hart. Strasser is also the author of the Time Zone High trilogy, How I Changed My Life, How I Created My Perfect Prom Date123, and How I Spent My Last Night on Earth. This book has been translated into more than a dozen languages and is read in schools around the world. His most famous work The Wave, is a novelization of a social experiment that happened in Cubberley High School in Palo Alto, California in 1969, and was made into a television movie in 1981 and a popular feature film in 2008. His works include Give a Boy a Gun, Boot Camp, and Asphalt Tribe. Strasser has written many award-winning novels for young adults and teens, picking controversial themes like Nazism, bullying at schools, homelessness, school shootings, and sexuality. He is the father of two children, and an avid tennis player and surfer. Rue.Īfter studying literature in college, Strasser earned his living working as a journalist, also operated his own fortune cookie company, producing cookies under the "Dr. As the pressures grow, it's not long before Lucas finds himself knocked so far down, it's starting to look like up to him.Todd Strasser (born in New York City, New York) is an American author of more than 130 young-adult and middle grade novels and novelizations, some written under the pen names Morton Rhue and T.S. If that isn't heavy enough, there's also the free-loving (and undeniably alluring) Tinsley, who seems determined to test Lucas's resolve to stay faithful to Robin a frighteningly bad trip at a Led Zeppelin concert a run-in with an angry motorcycle gang parents who appear headed for a divorce and a friend on the front lines in 'Nam who's in mortal danger of not making it back. But life veers dramatically off track when he suddenly finds himself in danger of being drafted and sent to fight in Vietnam. With his girlfriend, Robin, away in Canada, eighteen-year-old Lucas Baker's only plans for the summer are to mellow out with his friends, smoke weed, drop a tab or two, and head out in his microbus for a three-day happening called the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Drawing from his teenage years, Todd Strasser's novel revisits a tumultuous era and takes readers on a psychedelically tinged trip of a lifetime.
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