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Test Of Time: A Novel Approach to the SAT and ACT

Test Of Time: A Novel Approach to the SAT and ACT

Current price: $27.99
Publication Date: May 17th, 2004
Publisher:
Mariner Books
ISBN:
9780156011372
Pages:
448
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Description

Test of Time is a captivating time-travel adventure that incorporates vocabulary words from the SAT and ACT, boldfacing them throughout the novel and providing definitions in a handy back-of-the book glossary. The result is a fun and effective study method for the thousands of diligent students who take these tests each year.

For Orlando Garcia Ortiz and his friends at prestigious Hadleyburg University, it's finals week. That same week, but many, many years before, a famously eccentric writer in Hartford, Connecticut, is putting the finishing touches on a manuscript about a rebellious boy named Huck. Suddenly, a bizarre thing happens: The manuscript disappears and in its place appears a strange contraption-a college student's laptop that has traveled through time. It's a mysterious set of circumstances, but our intrepid heroes at Hadleyburg, joined by Mark Twain, endeavor to retrieve their valued possessions and return to their proper places in time.

About the Author

CHARLES HARRINGTON ELSTER is a nationally recognized expert on the English language. He is the pronunciation editor of Black's Law Dictionary and a consultant for Garner's Modern English Usage. His articles have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications, and he has published eleven books on the English language for a general audience.

Praise for Test Of Time: A Novel Approach to the SAT and ACT

PRAISE FOR TOOTH AND NAIL
“A mystery story, at once whimsical and elucidating, filled with
hundreds of SAT examiner’s favorite test words.”
—LOS ANGELES TIMES
“An SAT prep tool that practically spoon-feeds a plenitude of . . .
beneficial vocabulary to a plethora of adroit high school students.”
—HOUSTON CHRONICLE
“A superlative SAT strategy.A unique ... guide toward an SAT score of
which you can be proud.”—COLLEGE BOUND