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of Time by Charles Harrington Elster is a 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 those who take these tests each
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
Paper, 448 pages. 5 5/16" x 8". See also Tooth
and Nail by the same author.