| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| When Catherine's mother dies in childbirth and her father decides to remarry, Catherine must face painful changes. This novel, written in diary form, tells of a pivotal year for 19th-century New Englander Catherine Cabot Hill -- one of change, loss, and leave taking. |
Entertain |
Historical Fiction |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 2787 |
6.4 |
1030 |
Amazon
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| RDQ based on a maximum of 3000 words |
Levels are suggested levels based on RDQ, not official levels |
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| Sentences |
Total Words |
Different Words |
| Max Word/Sent |
107 |
Total # of Words |
3487 |
# of Different Words |
1136 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
15 |
Hi Freq occurs |
2485 |
71.3% |
# of Hi freq words |
426 |
37.5% |
| % of Long Sentences |
33.2 |
Low Freq occurs |
316 |
9.1% |
# of Low freq words |
268 |
23.6% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: No support |
| Dialog: Multiple speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker |
| Vocabulary: Many difficult words |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Many Long Complex |
| Text structure: Difficult |
| Inferences: Some implications |
| Complexity: Several unrelated ideas |
| Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social |
| Chapters |
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| Features |
| Character traits |
| Complex plot |
| First Person |
| Dialect/Accents |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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abated |
account |
achieving |
actual |
admiration |
advertisements |
affection |
amidst |
angle |
announced |
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aplenty |
apparition |
approval |
assay |
assured |
await |
ballot |
befallen |
boughs |
boundary |
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callers |
capacious |
capitals |
cassimere |
cellar |
cellar's |
charcoal |
commended |
companionship |
contentedly |
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cough |
courier |
cover's |
curling |
currants |
cyder |
demurred |
departing |
despite |
determined |
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devising |
dismissed |
disported |
distinguish |
diverse |
dogged |
drawn |
dreadful |
dwelt |
engage |
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ermine'd |
excellent |
familiar |
fashion |
fastened |
fellow |
festively |
fetched |
flaring |
flourish |
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foolscap |
fortunately |
frequent |
frock |
further |
gathering |
gayest |
gesture |
girth |
gnawed |
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granted |
guidance |
hale |
handwork |
harness |
harsh |
headless |
healthy |
hearth |
height |
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hereabouts |
holt |
homeward |
honour |
hosts |
household |
ignorant |
ignored |
improved |
inclement |
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inclined |
increase |
inspecting |
instances |
instructed |
instruction |
intelligence |
intermeddle |
intruder |
joining |
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knit |
knitting |
knowing |
knowledge |
labour |
ladies |
lanky |
latch |
lengths |
lengthy |
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lightly |
liking |
linen |
location |
margins |
massachusetts |
meadow |
measure |
mending |
meredith |
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mislead |
mistook |
misused |
mocks |
morocco |
morrow |
muffled |
muffler |
musical |
naught |
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newly |
noisily |
noted |
obeyed |
observed |
offend |
oft |
openly |
ought |
pantaloons |
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parlours |
pathway |
patterned |
paused |
peddlars |
peering |
perkinses |
permission |
persists |
petulant |
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phantom |
pianos |
piper |
piper's |
pitty |
pleasant |
pleasantly |
portions |
practiced |
praised |
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precept |
preparations |
presented |
presently |
prettily |
prevail |
priest |
prolong |
prompt |
prove |
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proved |
provisions |
prudent |
purpose |
pursues |
queerest |
queried |
raggedly |
rattling |
recall |
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recently |
recruiter |
reflected |
remarked |
rendered |
renewal |
repeatedly |
resembles |
resolved |
responsible |
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resumed |
retrieve |
reveal |
revealed |
rooty |
royal |
ruefully |
sabbath |
sattinett |
scarce |
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scarcely |
scarlet |
scowled |
separates |
sere |
service |
services |
severe |
shading |
shakespeare |
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shawl |
silhouette |
simper |
sisterly |
sleighs |
sophy |
sought |
spectral |
speculation |
spilt |
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sternly |
stitched |
stitching |
stocking |
stockings |
stray'd |
stylish |
subscriber |
suggesting |
supposing |
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surely |
sustain |
swiftly |
tangle |
tastefully |
tattered |
terrified |
thereafter |
thereto |
thine |
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tho |
thrashed |
thrashing |
thread |
threatened |
throughout |
tinkers |
tongues |
torches |
transpired |
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travelled |
trims |
trough |
trousers |
truly |
twas |
uncommon |
unmarried |
vagrant |
vaguely |
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virtues |
ward |
weary |
witty |
wrinkles |
yankee |
younger |
youngest |
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