Title - Bunnicula Author: Howe, Deborah and James Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Harold the dog and Chester the cat must find out the truth about the newest pet in the Monroe household—a suspicious-looking bunny with unusual habits…and fangs! Could this innocent-seeming rabbit actually be a vampire? Entertain RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1264 4.0 790 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 36 Total # of Words 3042 # of Different Words 870 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 2279 74.9% # of Hi freq words 389 44.7% % of Long Sentences 11.6 Low Freq occurs 161 5.3% # of Low freq words 141 16.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Concept: Fanciful Chapters Features Character traits First Person Topics Competition Dogs Cats Jealousy *Animals Friendship *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words absently accent admonition anxious audience available bereaved blanketed bonfires borrowed calmly caravans carpathian casually chesters chesterton circumstances college compelled compromise conversation crick curled curls deafening decipher delicious dialect dickens digress dosed dracula drawer drooled eerie exotic favoritism fellas finality fortune frantic gathering glare glistening gotta gypsies gypsy hence horror household hysteria ignore imagination impolite increasingly independence indicating inhaled intelligence introduction involved kingdom kittenhood lamely language lawyer lecture lectures leftover literature livingston lungs meanwhile mesh midst mongrel moonlight moseyed motor movement muttered noting nudged obscure ordinary palms particularly peculiar peered pelting picturing plaintively preference public radiator recognize region relative repulsive respect result reverie roughly roumanian sarcastically seagull selects shaft shrugged signaled slicked somewhat sounding spine sprang squealed staked stillness supernatural surrounding sustenance sworn theater thoughtful tranquil translated transylvanian traumatized unable unfamiliar unison usher vacuum veins velvet violin vivid volumes whimpered whistling wolfhound