Test of Time

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.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Harrington Elster
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 14
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.05.2004
• EAN: 9780156011372
• ISBN: 978-0-15-601137-2
• No. of pages: 448
• Weight: 417 g
• Series: Harvest Original; Harvest Original
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; FICTION: Mystery & Detective / General, SCIENCE: Life Sciences / Biology, STUDY AIDS: Tests (Other), STUDY AIDS: Study Guides, SCIENCE: Chemistry / General, STUDY AIDS: College Guides, STUDY AIDS: College Entrance, STUDY AIDS: SAT, STUDY AIDS: ACT