Test Of Time: A Novel Approach to the SAT and ACT (Harvest Original)

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.

CHARLES HARRINGTON ELSTER is an author, radio commentator, and logophile--a lover of words. He is the author of numerous books on language, including the bestselling vocabulary-building program Verbal Advantage and, most recently, The Accidents of Style: Good Advice on How Not to Write Badly. With Joseph Elliot he wrote the perennially popular Tooth and Nail, the first book to take a "novel approach" to learning vocabulary for the college entrance exams. Mr. Elster lives in San Diego.