Title - Aunt Eater's Mystery Halloween
Author: Cushman, Doug
Publisher: Scholastic

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Aunt Eater, the anteater, is off to a costume party, and it's a good thing she's dressed as a detective, because Halloween is the most mysterious night of the year! Man-eating monsters, headless ghosts, and other eerie encounters await Aunt Eater. With so many spooky surprises in stores, can the super sleuth handle them all? Entertain Fantasy
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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421 2.5 620 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 15 Total # of Words 1118 # of Different Words 326
Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 674 60.3% # of Hi freq words 138 42.3%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 33 3% # of Low freq words 19 5.8%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Dialog: Multiple speakers
Dialog: Broken dialogue
Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Simple phrases
Text structure: Blend of written/oral
Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social
Chapters
Headings
Features
Character traits
Topics
Monsters
Mystery
Dance/Dancing
Ghosts
Costumes
Parties
*Holidays, Events, Cele
Halloween
Low Frequency Words
crawling detective eater's halloween hollow jitterbug lively mysteries mysterious neighbors
partner scarecrow slithered sweetie tango troop's tuba turnip underbelly