Title - Bunnicula
Author: Howe, Deborah and James
Publisher: Scholastic

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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
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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
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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
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