Title - Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days Author: Manes, Stephen Publisher: Yearling Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Is it possible? Can an ordinary human being really become a perfect person in three short days? Milo Crinkley thought so. What gave him the idea was a book that fell on his head one day at the library--a book with the impressive title Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days! Entertain Humor RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1584 4.4 840 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 3321 # of Different Words 794 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 2398 72.2% # of Hi freq words 348 43.8% % of Long Sentences 7.1 Low Freq occurs 165 5% # of Low freq words 106 13.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Chapters Features Character traits Character development Complex Problem/Solution Simple Plot Topics Self Control Self Esteem Behaviors Improvements *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words aching astonishment astronauts authority ballet bawl biography booties borrow broccoli bucktoothed calmly campus centigrade chemicals circumstances college congratulate consumption contagious crisper cure dangled dawdled degrees delicious despite disease dumbest elissa embarrassing enology essential extremely fahrenheit flytraps futile glowered groceries halo hollered imagining imitation imperfect importance inquired instant institute instructions intelligent knocking leftover liable mentioning milo milo's minding morons mouthful mustard necklace nutrition obeyed olives outsmart outsmarted overnight perfection pinkerton plumbers precisely raises refrigerator rehearsal rutabaga sauce scoffed scrambled seedless sillier silverfish silverfish's skidrow slurp smirking stalk stalks stubbed stuft stupidest succulent surrounded suspiciously tempted thawed thompson tonight's twinkles unanswered unnecessary urge utmost venus warn watermelon whammies