| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Betsy, Tacy, and Tib are twelve, old enough to do lots of things... even go downtown on their own. There they see their first horseless carriage, discover the joys of the public library, and see a real play at the Opera House. |
Entertain |
Historical Fiction |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 1373 |
4.2 |
810 |
Amazon
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| RDQ based on a maximum of 3000 words |
Levels are suggested levels based on RDQ, not official levels |
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| Sentences |
Total Words |
Different Words |
| Max Word/Sent |
60 |
Total # of Words |
2821 |
# of Different Words |
871 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
8 |
Hi Freq occurs |
1942 |
68.8% |
# of Hi freq words |
353 |
40.5% |
| % of Long Sentences |
6.1 |
Low Freq occurs |
163 |
5.8% |
# of Low freq words |
130 |
14.9% |
| 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 |
| Complexity: Several unrelated ideas |
| Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social |
| Chapters |
| Sequence of Events: Chronological |
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| Features |
| Character traits |
| Simple Plot |
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| Topics |
| Writing |
| Plays |
| Friendship |
| *Entertainment & Fun |
| *Family & Friends |
| Reading |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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account |
ache |
actual |
adventurous |
anxiously |
apiece |
appreciate |
astounded |
baritone |
belted |
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bewilderment |
borrow |
carriage |
cautiously |
cigar |
concentrate |
contentedly |
conversation |
crotch |
curls |
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dainty |
depot |
dickens |
didi |
drowsing |
forked |
freckled |
freckles |
furious |
further |
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glimpses |
grievance |
hammock |
handkerchief |
hardened |
hesitate |
hoisted |
horseless |
instinct |
irish |
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jeered |
knickerbockers |
lagged |
lightly |
limb |
literature |
livery |
loaned |
lodge |
lofty |
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mamma |
mamma's |
maple |
marriage |
marvel |
matured |
melborn |
mentioned |
military |
misunderstood |
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mousehole |
nailed |
neighborhood |
neighboring |
nimbly |
novels |
nudged |
nuisances |
opera |
overflowed |
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parallel |
parlor |
patterson's |
paused |
peering |
perch |
perished |
perky |
persuaded |
pleadingly |
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pleasant |
poems |
pointedly |
pompadour |
practically |
private |
prompted |
providing |
railing |
readings |
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remarked |
rena |
retreat |
ringleted |
rooftops |
rosebud |
sailor |
sarcastically |
scornfully |
shaded |
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shakespeare |
shared |
shawl |
sidewalks |
slender |
solo |
spacious |
sparkling |
splendid |
stables |
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steeples |
stockings |
stoutly |
suits |
tablet |
theatre |
thoughtfully |
trippingly |
unconscious |
uneventful |
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unexplored |
unpinned |
vista |
waisted |
warrington |
wears |
wedge |
whist |
whither |
wistful |
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worth |
writhed |
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