Title - Bat Bones and Spider Stew
Author: Poploff, Michelle
Publisher: Yearling

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
When Henry meets Artie's sister Wanda and Granny Doomsday, he starts to wonder if the Doomsday household is haunted, too. Especially when Granny starts cooking up a big pot of bat bones and spider stew! Is this some kind of crazy Halloween prank, or is the Doomsday family for real? Entertain Fantasy
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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630 3.0 670 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 17 Total # of Words 1409 # of Different Words 513
Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 810 57.5% # of Hi freq words 207 40.4%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 53 3.8% # of Low freq words 37 7.2%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some 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
Table of Contents
Chapters
Features
Character traits
Topics
Witches
Riddles
*Holidays, Events, Cele
Halloween
Low Frequency Words
bitemare booberry cackly crawling doomsday doomsday's doomsdays frutti ghoster ghoul
goblins gurgled halloween haunted hiccuped hooper humpty ific jeans lantern
lanterns meowed munchy rubbery shrugged shucks slowpoke smacking sunburned swallows
swirled tutti vampire's weird whistled yahoo zombie