Title - Chasing Redbird Author: Creech, Sharon Publisher: HarperTrophy Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Zinnia "Zinny" Taylor, a quiet yet sometimes outrageous thirteen-year-old girl, enjoys the care of her aunt and uncle, Jessie and Nate, as her parents are preoccupied with her siblings.. Years later, Zinny accidentally rediscovers a large overgrown trail that is over two hundred years old. When her aunt unexpectedly dies, Zinny blames herself. Soon she begins to try to clear the trail. Entertain Historical Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2131 5.2 920 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 53 Total # of Words 3141 # of Different Words 919 Ave Word/.Sent 12 Hi Freq occurs 2355 75% # of Hi freq words 398 43.3% % of Long Sentences 19.3 Low Freq occurs 172 5.5% # of Low freq words 140 15.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Colorful, figurative Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Headings Features Character traits Character development Integral Setting Complex plot First Person Dialect/Accents Metaphors Similes Topics Determination *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words abide abundance accomplishment according announced apparently article average bleeping bon bonus butler cemetery cinnamon clomps convinced convoluted cough daffodil dangled dauber diabetes disease drawer embroidered encyclopedias et fashioned fern figuring fleck flinch flint fossil fritter general gonna grocery guilty handsome hangings headstone heave hedge herd honestly horrid imagined impostor increasingly innocent instantly issue kentucky launching limits major manager mantelpiece mistaken multi naw needlepoint neighbors newborn nickname nutmeg obsession oozed otherwise ought ourselves overgrown overnight owed passage pathetic peculiar photocopy pipsqueak plonked plunged poems policy pores practically property proverbs rages reborn redhead regard relent resolution resolutions responsibility responsible restless reward rummaging scrawny sensitive shouldered shrugged sickly slaughtered slew slogging snatched soul stereo stitched strands strolling studied sugar's suggest surgeon sweetheart tangled taylor taylors tobacco tomb trek treks tremendous trodden unable uncover unearth waggled wander where'd whipped whooping wonders yoked zinnia