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by: Karen B. Chapman  Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Edition: 1 Format: Bargain Price Label: Cliffs Notes Manufacturer: Cliffs Notes Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 332 Publication Date: January 13, 2005 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Studio: Cliffs Notes Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: One unforgettable story. One thousand unforgettable SAT vocabulary words. Alexa McCurry leads an ordinary teenager's life in upstate New York—until she embarks on a summer adventure in Central America. While working at a potentially boring internship in a marine DNA lab, she befriends a local boy, José, and a remarkable dolphin, Pecas. Together, Alexa and José uncover an ominous secret: Pecas' missing baby may be a captive at a marine biology facility. In a riveting tale of intrigue, Alexa and José work to unravel the mystery—and lead the reader on a vocabulary-expanding adventure. The Marino Mission is a fun and painless way to master 1,000 tough SAT vocabulary words. Why spend all day looking at lists of words and definitions when you can read a gripping page-turner that incorporates SAT vocabulary words right into the text? Even better, words are defined at the bottom of each page so you don't have to flip to the back of the book to find definitions. Plus, self-tests at the end of the novel help you retain what you learn and prepare for test day. Once you open up The Marino Mission, you'll hardly know you're studying at all! Download Description: 1,000 SAT I vocabulary words in a teen-friendly page-turner Say adios to the mind-numbing word lists found in most SAT prep guides: teens will lose themselves in the fast-paced drama of The Marino Mission and emerge with a superior vocabulary. Each year, more than 2 million students take the SAT I. Now, instead of poring over word lists, they’ll encounter vocabulary in the context of a memorable novel–a recipe for much better word retention on test day. One thousand of the most commonly tested vocabulary words are sprinkled through this action-packed story, which features an exotic Latin American locale, a teenage girl and boy, a tale of intrigue surrounding a missing baby dolphin–and a brief definition of each vocabulary word, easily accessible at the bottom of the page on which each word appears. As an added test-prep bonus, the book includes vocabulary exercises at the back to help students master the words presented in the text. Dr. Karen B. Chapman (Southborough, MA) received her PhD in molecular biology and genetics from Johns Hopkins University. She is also a writer, with a film treatment that was optioned by Paramount Studios. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - SAT NovelThis is a great book that will build your SAT vocabulary. The book is a fun read so you will not get bored as you are learning new words. Great for high schoolers.(and parents too) Rating:  - Definitely not goodI very much disliked this book. The only reason i gave it 2 starts instead of one is because the vocab was woven in pretty well most the time. The book is about a teenage girl forced to go to Nigeria over the summer with her mother and ends up working in a labratory in Puerto Marino. Her mother is working with the dolphins while alexa is stuck in the lab. Alexa meets a boy about her age and they hit it off. They find out that some of the dolphins were illegally taken into the marina and try to rescue ... Read More Rating:  - worthlessthis book is terrible. i tried the first 7 chapters and aside from not teaching me any new vocabulary it bored me to death. it is basically a generic dolphin story set on a tropical island with white beaches and blue water where a teenage girl and a poor native fisher guy who dreams of school befriend a dolphin and save its baby from the mean scientists. it is THE MOST BORING book i have read in several years and it does not deserve a glance. if i knew how to rate the book zero stars instead of one ... Read More Rating: - Fun for all ages.My SAT prep teacher gave this book to us so we can learn a bunch of new words. It was great read! The story was fun, thought at times it seemed quirky and corny. One thing I noticed was that the author had trouble squeezing in some the words. Overall it was not hard to read. It was not boring for any of the students, and we learned plenty of words. The class took a test in the beginning to see how many vocab words we knew. It was a list of 300 SAT level words total. The class averaged about 39%. Using ... Read More Rating: - Not bad.I could see myself on the beach reading this book - it's as good of a plotline you can get for an SAT book, and has a plethora of SAT words embedded in it, which only minimally detracts from the storyline. The definitions on the bottom of the page are great, and it's cool to see the words that you are using in context in the story. The ending is pretty cheesy, though, but that's okay. 
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