Title - Airmail to the Moon Author: Birdseye, Tom Publisher: Trumpet Club Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre When the tooth that she was saving for the Tooth Fairy disappears, Ora Mae is certain that it has been stolen, and sets out to find the thief and send him "airmail to the moon!" Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 885 3.4 720 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 56 Total # of Words 1615 # of Different Words 543 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 1053 65.2% # of Hi freq words 211 38.9% % of Long Sentences 8.6 Low Freq occurs 101 6.3% # of Low freq words 68 12.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Blend of written/oral Inferences: Some implications Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Character traits First Person Metaphors Similes Topics Teeth Stealing Mistakes Family *Human Body & Health *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words according banter bawling blabbing calmly catch'em cellar chomper condominium condominiums cottons courthouse crabapple crawdads crawling curling dadaw eared embarrassed estate eyed fetching fumed glued gonna gotcha grief grinding grocery hester honest kelsey kneel leftover lickety likely limb merrietta miami motor necklace neighbor nickname ora orchard ornery pockets possum ppllubb rascal raspberry respecting rutabagas sauntered sausages shaving snipped soul spied squabble squawking teal thinker vibration vowed watermelons who'd wobbly