Title - Belle Prater's Boy Author: White, Ruth Publisher: Yearling Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Everyone in Coal Station, Virginia, has a theory about what happened to Belle Prater, but twelve-year-old Gypsy wants the facts, and when her cousin Woodrow, Aunt Belle's son moves next door, she has her chance. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2811 6.5 1030 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 50 Total # of Words 3455 # of Different Words 1002 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 2650 76.7% # of Hi freq words 444 44.3% % of Long Sentences 19.8 Low Freq occurs 212 6.1% # of Low freq words 173 17.3% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Colorful, figurative Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Chapters Sequence of Events: Mostly chronological Mature Concepts: With some uncommon experiences Features Character traits Character development Complex character relationships Complex plot Dialect/Accents Idioms Metaphors Topics Courage Tolerance Imagination *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors Relationships Low Frequency Words abruptly accompanied according admonitions aggravate appalachians arbutus aroma azaleas barkeeper bluegrass blurted boyfriends civic coalfields college consideration convergence corpse dadburned dawg debating demonstrated deserves dingy disappointed distributing dogwood don'tcha doorsill doubt drawer drawers echo editor environment everett evidence expanse eyeball eyed figgered figgering folk fortunate foul fuchsia gawky gazed general genuinely german graduated gypsy halo hardware heady healthy hillbilly hiya holler hollered honky honored humdrum ignition indication insinuations interfering interview isolated january jawbreaker jawbreakers jeans joint jolted kin knight knowledge league lilac marshy memorized mention moron musta mysteriously mystic neighbor neighbors nightmare noticing objection orchard ordinary oughta outa outskirts oversized palooka parallel passable patent pester pestering phonograph pitiful plagued plaited plumbing poem poems porter porter's practically presence prettiest privileged proclaimed promptly propping pure quiver radios rapunzel's reception reckon reclaimed refrigerator residence ridge rightful rugged saturation shaggy shepherd sheriff shimmering shirtsleeve shrugged shuttered shutters situation slag soon's soul speculation speech sprawled station's stepfather stubborn surely surrounding swallowed sweetheart swelled theories theory tolerate tonk tragic traipse traipsing twilight vanishing volunteer wadn't wanna whipped whiz would've wraparound