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Test of Time: A Novel Approach to the SAT and ACT Paperback - 2004 - 1st Edition
by Charles Harrington Elster
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Page 6A fun and effective study method for students who take the annual SAT and ACT, this captivating time-travel adventure incorporates vocabulary words from the tests into the story.
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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.
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.
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Q: What's better than a whole pile of those loathsome test-preparation books?
A: The captivating novel you're holding in your hands.
A: The captivating novel you're holding in your hands.
That's right: You can actually study for the SAT and ACT by reading this time-travel adventure novel. As you enjoy Test of Time, you will encounter more than 2,000 words commonly found on both tests, each one highlighted in boldface and defined in a handy back-of-the-book glossary. The best part is, you'll remember the words better because you've learned each one in context--in relation to the other words around it. And one thing the SAT and ACT will always test is your ability to comprehend what you read and your knowledge of words in context.
Did you ever imagine you could study for the SAT and ACT and have fun at the same time? If that sounds like a better way to go, look inside.
Charles Harrington Elster, a graduate of Yale University, is the author of various popular books about language and vocabulary, including Tooth and Nail: A Novel Approach to the SAT. He co-hosts a weekly public radio show on language in San Diego, where he lives with his wife and daughters.
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- Title Test of Time: A Novel Approach to the SAT and ACT
- Author Charles Harrington Elster
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 420
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
- Publication date 2004-05-17
- Features Glossary, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780156011372 / 0156011379
- Weight 1.03 lbs (0.47 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.42 x 0.91 in (20.32 x 13.77 x 2.31 cm)
- Age range 14 to UP years
- Grade levels 9 - UP
- Reading level 960
- Category Young Adult Fiction
- Library of Congress subjects Twain, Mark, Time travel
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003028214
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- School Library Journal, 07/01/2004, Page 104
- Voice of Youth Advocates, 08/01/2004, Page 228
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