Death at the Villa Tarconti: An SAT Vocabulary Novelette
ERICA ABBETT
A story you’d read anyway. It also happens to help you prepare for the SAT and ACT.
Lucy scrimped and saved to attend a Tuscan writers’ retreat. Now that she’s arrived, life has begun to imitate art as, one by one, her fellow guests succumb to the dastardly fates described in a novelist’s latest manuscript.
INSIDE THE BOOK
CRAFTED FOR STUDENTS
For your convenience, definitions of lesser-known words are at the bottom of each page, as well as a glossary at the back of the book.
READERS OF DEATH AT THE VILLA TARCONTI SAY
“It’s adorable. Loved it.”
WHY THIS BOOK
THINK ABOUT THE WORDS YOU KNOW
Three of the 80+ words in this mystery, and the definition at the bottom of the page for each.
GOOD TO KNOW
QUESTIONS, ANSWERED
KEEP EXPLORING
PAIR IT WITH Death at the Villa Tarconti
Cleopatra’s lost palace, a would-be spy in Tel Aviv, twelve short stories, and a spring in Florence to round out the reading list.