Title - Afternoon on the Amazon Author: Osborne, Mary Pope Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Jack and Annie travel back in time to a South American rain forest in search of the elusive magician Morgan le Fay. Will they find a new clue to her whereabouts before they are trampled by stampeding killer ants? Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 871 3.4 710 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 21 Total # of Words 3067 # of Different Words 707 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 2236 72.9% # of Hi freq words 327 46.3% % of Long Sentences 0.8 Low Freq occurs 53 1.7% # of Low freq words 42 5.9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Concept: Fanciful Table of Contents Chapters Headings Features Integral Setting Topics Searching/Hunting Danger Rain Forests *Habitats/Environments Low Frequency Words absolutely basin beckoned camouflage crouched gathering hemisphere horror hurl hurled jaguar kneeling knights librarian magical moonstone mysterious panic peanut's peered pennsylvania piranhas predator prologue pyramids raindrop razor riverbank scaly shimmered shoved spookiest surprisingly surroundings there're understory unknown unseen weird what'd whirling whistling