Title - Aliens for Breakfast Author: Spinner, Stephanie Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre It's been ten years since Richard Bickerstaff sat down to breakfast and an alien climbed out of his cereal bowl! Join Richard and Aric, a tiny, wisecracking creature from the planet Ganoob, as they battle to save the world from evil aliens in Aliens for Breakfast, Aliens for Lunch, and Aliens for Dinner. Entertain Science Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 991 3.6 740 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 22 Total # of Words 3016 # of Different Words 800 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 2142 71% # of Hi freq words 346 43.3% % of Long Sentences 0.9 Low Freq occurs 125 4.1% # of Low freq words 84 10.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Concept: Fanciful Chapters Features Character traits Simple problem/solution Simple Plot Difficult names Topics Danger Aliens Problem Solving *Fictional Ideas/Charac Low Frequency Words ache alien aliens arie arie's bickerstaff brigade bubblegum calmly cosmic destination dimensional disrupter dissolving divides dory earthling enterprise exploring eyed fawn ganoob ganoobian glassy gygrax heaved hunky hup huphup imagination imitating impressed ingbar interspace invisible kong lawyer leroy lords lunchbox minded molecules munchy muttered natives naw oozing panic percent plucked precise primitive project pyramid pyramids rearranging regain resist resisting richard's rude sample sci scowled sean sensing smoothly starship stashed stitched suitable superpowerful sweetie sylvia tristram troublemakers tuna warp warrior weakly weapons whimpered whined yoda