Title - Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon Author: Danziger, Paula Publisher: G.P.Putnam's Sons Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Amber and Justin do just about everything together. They've known each other practically forever, been building a giant chewing gum ball for years, always sit next to each other in class, play together every day after school. What's Amber going to do now that Justin's moving away? Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1283 4.1 790 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 53 Total # of Words 2436 # of Different Words 739 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 1676 68.8% # of Hi freq words 311 42.1% % of Long Sentences 7.7 Low Freq occurs 101 4.1% # of Low freq words 77 10.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Blend of written/oral Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Features Character traits Complex character relationships Simple Plot First Person First Person First Person Present Tense Present Tense Present Tense Topics Friendship Moving *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors Relationships Low Frequency Words ability absolutely agency aisles announced applauds armitage articles attendants bagel barrette barrettes bratster broker bzzzzzz comb combed committee cuckoo cursive daniels disneyland divorce doofus emergency estate faraway fasten fortunato fortune fractions freckled goofballs gross handwriting hart headbands honest hoping ignore imitates immature instant jersey justin's legos license licorice medal microphone motions multicolored neatness notecard packets passport passports pasting pilots positively pregnant preschool reminders scrapbook scrapbooks sesame specially stirrup takeout teamwork torment tuna whisper workbooks yonder younger zaire