| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| In this Merlin mission, on Christmas Eve, Jack and Annie's tree house transports them to King Arthur's castle at Camelot, where they undertake a quest to the Otherworld, a quest that will prove to a beleaguered King Arthur that children and imagination really can make a difference. |
Entertain |
Adventure |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
|
Find at |
| 1060 |
3.7 |
750 |
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 |
25 |
Total # of Words |
2661 |
# of Different Words |
724 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
7 |
Hi Freq occurs |
1840 |
69.1% |
# of Hi freq words |
316 |
43.6% |
| % of Long Sentences |
1.9 |
Low Freq occurs |
139 |
5.2% |
# of Low freq words |
90 |
12.4% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Dialog: Multiple speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Inferences: Some implications |
| Complexity: Several ideas - closely related |
| Concept: Fanciful |
| Chapters |
| Headings |
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| Features |
| Integral Setting - Historical |
| Simple Plot |
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| Topics |
| *History |
| Magic |
| *Holidays, Events, Cele |
| Christmas |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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absolutely |
adventures |
arched |
archway |
banished |
bedivere |
breathed |
castle's |
challenge |
cooo |
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courage |
courtyard |
drafty |
drawbridge |
dread |
echoed |
enchanted |
enchantress |
eventually |
fiercely |
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firelight |
galahad |
gawain |
gnawing |
goblets |
grove |
guinevere |
hence |
hoping |
imagination |
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imaginations |
invitation |
journeys |
kingdom |
kingdom's |
knight |
knights |
knowing |
ladies |
lancelot |
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lancelot's |
lantern |
latch |
laughter |
legend |
legendary |
lingers |
magician |
magicians |
majesty |
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messenger |
mission |
mocking |
mordred |
mordred's |
mysterious |
orchard |
otherworld |
peered |
pennsylvania |
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percival |
pictured |
piercing |
prologue |
recapture |
royal |
rustled |
scroll |
shaggy |
shimmered |
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shone |
slurping |
sought |
sounding |
startled |
surge |
tapestries |
torches |
towered |
tristram |
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tunics |
turrets |
twilight |
unrolled |
velvet |
whistled |
who'd |
woes |
yellowed |
zigzagged |
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