Title - Along for the Ride Author: Dessen, Sarah Publisher: Viking Press Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Ever since her parents began fighting, Auden has been unable to sleep at night. Now, spending a summer at a charming beach town with her father and his new family, she has to find new places to pass the time she spends awake. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 3264 7+ 1090 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 52 Total # of Words 3826 # of Different Words 1210 Ave Word/.Sent 16 Hi Freq occurs 2864 74.9% # of Hi freq words 460 38% % of Long Sentences 44.6 Low Freq occurs 347 9.1% # of Low freq words 285 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: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Chapters Sequence of Events: Chronological Mature concepts: With common experiences or clear fantasy Features Character traits Character development Complex character relationships Clear cause/effect Complex plot First Person Topics Friendship Choices Divorce *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors Parents Relationships Low Frequency Words abroad academia academic academically accelerated accomplishments admission adoringly albeit align ample announced application article articles artistic assume atmosphere auden beachfront bemoaned blazer breadwinner businesslike butcher campus childbirth christened cigarettes clinking coauthor coauthorship coed coffeemaker colicky collected college combative commercial committee competition complimentary concerning conference conferences confident congratulations constant constantly contradictions countless courses courtship craziness critical critiqued cul culs culture curb curriculum curvy cushion cushions defriese denominator detailing diaper diapers disappointment discussion discussions dissertation divorce doubt drunken dustup eased ecology eiffel elite emphasized endowed enjoyable epic epiphany equivalent exception exclamation exhausted extraneous exuberant familiar fascinating favored feuds flexible flushing formal former frivolous funk furnished gatherings glancing gorgeous gpa gpas grad graduate graduation grammar grammatical greatly gulp heavyset heidi hell hemlines highlights highly hollis hosting housewife hyperactive idiot implantation inane independent individual inevitably informed ingrained initiative intellectual intelligence interactions interdepartmental interstate involved issue jealous jeans joining junior karate katherine kiffney kindergarten knowing lacking latter laughter level literature maintenance manicures marlowe marriage mattered mature mercedes minding moments narrowing narwhal national nationwide neared neon nerdy newfound nomadic novel nudging nursery nyt obscure obvious occasional occurred offense originally ounces overdue paired partake partially participate payment peace peered poems poet populated practically pregnant prestigious private professors progress publication published publisher quik raspy ravenous reasons relating relationships renaissance reputation request required resolved respond rigorous sac sandals scanning schedule scholarship scoring scruffy seldom seller senior separately separating separation settling shaggy shakespeare shrink shuffling simpler slung smoothly solace somewhat sophomore speech spirited squarely stepsister stirred storefronts strengths studies succeeding supervision survived syllabus symphony tara termed theory therapy toddler togethers tossers tote transferred tumultuous twinge typical ultracompetitive union unnecessary upbringing vantage vengeance vicarious waitresses wandering wedge weighing weird weirdest weymar whitman who'd women's worth