Title - 11 Birthdays Author: Mass, Wendy Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre After having a falling out on their tenth birthday and not speaking to each other for the last year, Amanda and Leo prepare to celebrate their eleventh birthday separately, but peculiar things begin to happen. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1920 4.8 890 Amazon RDQ based on a maximum of 3000 words Levels are suggested levels based on RDQ, not official levels Sentences Total Words Different Words Max Word/Sent 49 Total # of Words 3986 # of Different Words 1165 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 3071 77% # of Hi freq words 506 43.4% % of Long Sentences 13.2 Low Freq occurs 214 5.4% # of Low freq words 181 15.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concept: Fanciful Sequence of Events: Mostly chronological Features Character traits Character development Complex Problem/Solution Complex plot Topics Time Birthdays Magic Friendship *Fictional Ideas/Charac *Family & Friends *Holidays, Events, Cele Relationships Low Frequency Words abs accelerate according account accusingly alas alternate angelina angelina's apparently approached arched bassinet bemused birthing birthmark blur boogying borrowed burying c'mon cautiously community convinced craned crawling crepe crumple curious curled curls d'angelo decision diapers disco disneyland distracted drawer dude dusky dustin earliest echoed encourage executive exhausted fashionable fastened fiona fitzpatrick flirting frantic freckles glance glimmering gordon graciously grounded growth gymnastics haired halloween handing handpainted handspring haunted headband heather hippies image inflatable instruments invisible invitation involuntarily involved kindly kneeling legos leonard likely ma'am macaroni madly magnificent major manicured mansion mcallister mcallister's memories mena miraculously mirrored morn mown multicolored musical muster mutter nah newborn nursery oddest overflowing overgrown overreacted panic parted partner perched perfected physically poem poetry pottery practicing precious preppy prinz professionally project promoted propped public questioned rd recognition recognize respectable routine rsvps ruby rungs salami salon satisfied scarce science sciency secure securely seventh seventies shrek sparkly spurt squirmed stall stalling status storytime straighten strolled studio superheroes swears sweater sweatshirts tambourine theme thingy thrived thrusts tilted tryouts twirling unconvinced uncool understanding universe unroll unspoken unwilling volunteer wand wheeled whitehead whooshed wicker younger