Title - Bo's Magical New Friend Author: Elliot, Rebecca Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Bo Tinseltail loves going to Sparklegrove School with the other unicorns. Every unicorn has a magical power. Bo is a Wish Unicorn with the power to grant wishes. Bo has lots of friends, but one thing Bo wants more than anything is a best friend. Entertain Graphic Novel RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 985 3.6 740 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 29 Total # of Words 2687 # of Different Words 710 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 1852 68.9% # of Hi freq words 316 44.5% % of Long Sentences 2 Low Freq occurs 139 5.2% # of Low freq words 73 10.3% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Simple graphics supplementary to text comprehension Speech Bubbles Unconventional format Dialog: Multiple speakers Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Concept: Fanciful Table of Contents Chapters Features Topics Magic Friendship Unicorns *Fictional Ideas/Charac Low Frequency Words announces budbloom byes changer deserve diary embarrassing exploring fairies fridays frightening glade glimmer glitterific glittery goblin goblins grant healer hiccuped hooved hooves hoping invisible lagoon laughter luckily magical meadow mondays movement naughty necktie nutmeg paraded patches piper royal rumptwinkle rumptwinkle's scarlet scarlett scissors shrink shuffled sledding sonny sparklegrove sparkling sparkly sprang sprite sunbeam sunbeams swept swirled swished syrup tangle tastic thingamabob tidy tinseltail tonight's twinkleplop twinkly twirling unicorn unicorns unipod unique warrior weeny