Test of Time A Novel Approach to the SAT and ACT

Name: Test of Time A Novel Approach to the SAT and ACT
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ISBN: 9780156011372

ISBN-10: 0156011379

ISBN-13: 9780156011372

Edition: 2003

Authors: Charles Harrington Elster

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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…

Book details

List price: $27.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/17/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

CHARLES HARRINGTON ELSTER is a writer, broadcaster, and logophile-a lover of words. He is the author of several books, including The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations, Verbal Advantage, and There's a Word for It. He is also a guest contributor to the "On Language" column of the New York Times Magazine. He lives in San Diego.



Preface


Test of Time: The Novel


Exercises


Glossary


Acknowledgments