Confessions of a High School Word Nerd: Increase Your SAT Verbal Score While Laughing Your Gluteus Off

Effortlessly acquire an SAT vocabulary through hilarious high school essays

Every year, 9 million American students expend large amounts of time and energy preparing for proficiency and entrance exams like the SAT, ACT, PSAT, and SSAT with a heap of vocabulary flash cards and a fat volume of repetitive practice tests. Each one of them, along with their parents and teachers, wishes that there was a less painful way to prepare for test day. There is, and this book is the solution: a collection of ten well-written, entertaining essays by recent college-graduates-turned-writers that honestly and amusingly recount wild, traumatizing, and hilarious high-school events, using common SAT words as a study tool.
(*gluteus: any of the large muscles of the buttocks; esp: gluteus maximus)

Author: Arianne Cohen, Colleen Kinder
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Published: 01/01/2007
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 7.74h x 5.16w x 0.49d
ISBN: 9780143038368