Title - Cam Jansen The Mystery of the Babe Ruth Baseball Author: Adler, David A. Publisher: Puffin Unicorn Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Mysteries follow super-sleuth Cam Jansen everywhere she goes...even to the community hobby show. Cam and Eric are checking out a sports memorabilia booth when a baseball autographed by Babe Ruth disappears. Can Cam catch the thief and recover the Babe's ball? Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 637 3.0 670 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 32 Total # of Words 3004 # of Different Words 619 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 2171 72.3% # of Hi freq words 299 48.3% % of Long Sentences 3.2 Low Freq occurs 47 1.6% # of Low freq words 34 5.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Chapters Features Character traits Topics Stealing Baseball Memory/Memories *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words carriage chasing community cuckoo dosed exhibit exhibits fernando foil guidry jeans league musial mustache needlepoint owe paige photograph photographic photographs pockets postage ruth's satchel section seesaws shelton shortened slugger valenzuela valuable worth wrappers yearbooks