Title - Bearstone Author: Hobbs, Will Publisher: Atheneum Books Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Fourteen-year-old Cloyd Atcitty is being sent to work for Walter Landis, an old rancher on an isolated Colorado farm. In a cave above the ranch, Cloyd finds a turquoise carving of a bear. Entertain Adventure RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1771 4.7 870 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 39 Total # of Words 2731 # of Different Words 780 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 2053 75.2% # of Hi freq words 340 43.6% % of Long Sentences 7.3 Low Freq occurs 125 4.6% # of Low freq words 85 10.9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Chapters Mature concepts: With common experiences or clear fantasy Features Character traits Character development Integral Setting Complex Problem/Solution Simple Plot Topics Attitudes Challenges Trying to please Behaviors Rebel/Rebellion *Feelings, Behaviors Native Americans Relationships Low Frequency Words altitude announced arching astonished atcitty boulder boulder's chasing cloudless deliberately duffel durango emotion exert foliage fucked harvest herd herding hitchhike housemother hovering how've impish insight intent landis ledge ledges leeno liar lungs lush maude mesa mischievously miserable monument navajo notch orchard outcrop overalls pasture patient peered piedra pockets potholes rancher regarded ridge roamed rugged sagebrush sandstone service shallow shone shrank shriveled shrugged shrunken skittered sliding sloping soared splendid sprang spruce studied terrified terror tramping treasured turquoise unreachable ute utes veins weminuche whites wither worth wrinkled