Title - Boundless Grace Author: Hoffman, Mary Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre When Grace gets the opportunity to go to Africa and visit with her father and his new family, she feels a little strange. But Nana says families are what you make them, and Grace is going to make the most of hers! Entertain Adventure RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 748 3.2 690 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 1403 # of Different Words 461 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 986 70.3% # of Hi freq words 217 47.1% % of Long Sentences 5.3 Low Freq occurs 25 1.8% # of Low freq words 21 4.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Mature concepts: With common experiences or clear fantasy Features Integral Setting Simple Plot Difficult names Topics Books Travel/Traveling Fathers Cultures Africa/ns Caring/Hugs Family African Americans Foreign Country Divorce *Family & Friends Low Frequency Words benachin gambia jackfruit liking manage nanas neneh particularly photographs rapunzel roadside rumpelstiltskin savory schoolbooks speechless spite stall stepmothers wandering watermelons youngest