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| The Marino Mission: One Girl, One Mission, One Thousand Words; 1,000 Need-to-Know *SAT Vocabulary Words (WordSavvy Book) | 
| Author: Karen B. Chapman
Publisher: Cliffs Notes
Category: Book
Buy New: $16.71
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 614873
Format: Bargain Price
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 332
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.8
ASIN: B0013L4CUE
Publication Date: January 13, 2005
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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, Jose, and a remarkable dolphin, Pecas. Together, Alexa and Jose uncover an ominous secret: Pecas' missing baby may be a captive at a marine biology facility. In a riveting tale of intrigue, Alexa and Jose 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!
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 SAT Novel May 15, 2008
This 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)
 Definitely not good March 14, 2008
I 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 them.
I really didn't like how the mexican boy, Jose, knew all these huge sat words when he was supposed to be not know english too well. It was very unrealistic and cheesy. I also got annoyed very quicky since every page has at least 5 exclamation points. It drove me insane. More importantly, Jose, Alexa's friend is not a likable character. I found him weird and overly excited about everything. If you the reader doesn't fall in love with the boy as well, then it's a lost cause. I spent most the book thinking "why would you want to hang out with this guy? what do you see in him?" Alexa wasn't a very fun character either.
Overall, i consider this book "an annoying read." I wanted to finish the book so I could be done with it already- the only reason i kept reading it was for the vocab.
If you're looking for an sat book that is at least somewhat entertaining i suggest (in this order)
1) Busted
2) Sun-Kissed
3) Head Ove Heals
All these three books are much better storyline wise and vocab wise. The definitions are only about 1-2 words where as in Marino Mission they were almost all sentences and it became very distractive and harder to remember the words.
 worthless November 12, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
this 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 i would. it deserves -10.
Fun for all ages. August 6, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
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 this book as our main vocab builder (Our teacher did not want us to memorize the words from the test) in two weeks we reached 50% and another week the class made it to 68%! Anyways these 1000 words are great for any level, there were some words the advanced kids did not know and students with less vocabulary learned many words very quickly with the help of this wonderful study aid!
My score went from a 450 to a 600 because of this book! The story was good and I am going re-read it to learn some words I may have forgotten.
Not bad. April 28, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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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