| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in 1936 Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father -- the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. |
Entertain |
Historical Fiction |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 2188 |
5.3 |
930 |
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 |
58 |
Total # of Words |
3502 |
# of Different Words |
880 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
15 |
Hi Freq occurs |
2743 |
78.3% |
# of Hi freq words |
401 |
45.6% |
| % of Long Sentences |
28.1 |
Low Freq occurs |
103 |
2.9% |
# of Low freq words |
87 |
9.9% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: No support |
| Dialog: Multiple speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker |
| Vocabulary: Many difficult words |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Many Long Complex |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Inferences: Several Implications |
| Complexity: Several unrelated ideas |
| Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social |
| Chapters |
| Sequence of Events: Chronological |
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| Features |
| Character traits |
| Character development |
| Complex character relationships |
| Integral Setting - Historical |
| Complex plot |
| First Person |
| Dialect/Accents |
| Unusual use of vocabulary |
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| Topics |
| *History |
| *Family & Friends |
| *Feelings, Behaviors |
| Relationships |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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accepted |
amoses |
asthma |
beastly |
blubbery |
blurry |
brute |
caseworkers |
choky |
chugged |
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coldcocked |
commence |
conscience |
cur |
decoder |
depression |
deserve |
devastators |
doggone |
doggoned |
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drawers |
dusky |
engagement |
exclamation |
eyeball |
figuring |
flint |
foster |
grateful |
headboard |
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heeled |
hoping |
ilk |
ingratitude |
jerry's |
jumbo |
lamppost |
lavatory |
liar |
liar's |
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liars |
littler |
loosening |
looser |
luxurious |
ma'am |
mattress |
meantime |
michigan |
might've |
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momma's |
must've |
muttered |
paddled |
paradise |
personal |
plagues |
proved |
provoked |
quitter |
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rememorized |
repay |
rough |
scooching |
shucks |
snatch |
sounding |
squinching |
stung |
suspicion |
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swats |
temporary |
that'll |
there're |
thermometer |
ticonderoga |
toddy |
tolerate |
unfortunately |
uplifted |
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urchins |
vermin |
waken |
welted |
wetters |
winking |
wrist |
writ |
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