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

Elster, Charles Harrington

ISBN 10: 0156011379 / ISBN 13: 9780156011372

Published by Mariner Books (edition First Edition), 2004

About this Item

It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience.

Seller Inventory # 0156011379-11-1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Test Of Time: A Novel Approach to the SAT and ACT (Harvest Original)
• Publisher: Mariner Books (edition First Edition)
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0156011379
• ISBN 13: 9780156011372
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

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 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.