Title - Bone Button Borscht Author: Davis, Aubrey Publisher: Addison-Wesley Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre On a dark winter's night, a ragged beggar dreams of a warm hearth and a delicious meal -- and sets out to find just that. In this retelling of the classic folk tale "Stone Soup," a stranger teaches the poor villagers what can be accomplished with a few buttons and a little cooperation. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 878 3.4 720 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 30 Total # of Words 1919 # of Different Words 509 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 1319 68.7% # of Hi freq words 225 44.2% % of Long Sentences 0.9 Low Freq occurs 88 4.6% # of Low freq words 49 9.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little 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: Some implications Concept: Fanciful Features Integral Setting - Cultural/Regional Simple Plot Mood/tone Topics Sharing Cooperation Innovation Cooking *Community Low Frequency Words accordians aleichem aroma beggar beggar's blessed borrowed borscht caretaker curious delicious diced fasten further garlic glimmer hobbled host ladle ladled miracle naturally patiently peace peered plunk ragged ridiculous rosy sackful scoffed shalom shamas shrugged sipping slurp slurped slurping snatched spooned stirred synagogue synagogues tailor tailor's townsfolk trudged violins watered