Title - Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters Author: Blume, Lesley Publisher: Alfred A Knopf Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Eleven-year-old Cornelia is the daughter of two world-famous pianists - a legacy that should feel fabulous, but instead feels just plain lonely. She surrounds herself with dictionaries and other books to isolate herself from the outside world. . Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 3008 7+ 1080 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 35 Total # of Words 4196 # of Different Words 1293 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 3026 72.1% # of Hi freq words 514 39.8% % of Long Sentences 10.3 Low Freq occurs 381 9.1% # of Low freq words 316 24.4% 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: Some implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Chapters Sequence of Events: Mostly chronological Mature concepts: With common experiences or clear fantasy Features Character traits Character development Simple Plot Difficult names Foreign words Dialect/Accents Unusual use of vocabulary Topics Travel/Traveling Storytelling Mothers Self Esteem Friendship Sisters *Family & Friends Relationships Low Frequency Words absolutely accented according advertised amused announced anxious apparent arched artillery ashen asn't asphalt astonished avenues baffle baring bete biography blimey bluster bookshop brannigan brownstone bullfighting buttery cafe casting casually categories charity chessboard cigarette cleverness clumped cobblestones cockney complicated concert conjured consoling constant conversation conversations corridor coterie cousins coyly cranny customers dainty decade decor deepened descended desjardins desjardins's despair destination detective diamonds dictionaries dictionnaire dieu discussion disliked dismissed distractedly doubt dramatic dubiously dumbfounded echoed elated elegant elevator englehart enthusiasm ere errands exploring expressions extreme fabulous fakey fashioned featured flair flounced flourish foe fopdoodly foremost fortress foyer frustrated gala generously glared gorgeous grander greenwich grouchily grunted halt handing haughty heaved horizon household housekeeper's humble hustled identity ignored immediately impatiently impressive increasingly indifferent ingrid inscrutable inspected interoffice intimidated intricate intrusive investigated invitation invitations irritably isolated joints jovially karaoke knobby knowing l'enfant laborer lacquer ladies lagged lauren lauren's lengthy level loll loneliness longing lugged madame mademoiselle magnolia manual marvelous massive meanly memo memos mission mistaken mon musty muttered neighborhood nightmare noire noire's nook nostrils nosy noted nudged nugatory nursery occurring offender opulent oui outgrown outing overseer pace parcel passersby patience peered peppered performing perfume pestered petulant pianist pitifully plagued playmates plunked pointless portly potter practically practiced precious precocious primary privacy proficient public purpose puzzling quickened quidnunc quisquous quotidian reemerged refrigerator relative relevant reluctantly renowned reportedly reserve respect rink roman rounded rung satisfaction sauce sawing scent scissors scotch scrabble scrawled sealing section seemingly sensing servant shelves shortened sidewalks simpler skyscrapers sleek snatched snipping sociable social somber spareness speech sprang sprite straightened strewn strode stroll suffice superior surge suspiciously sustenance sweetie swelled swiveled tattered taxis teakettle telltale tempered tenants terribly thesaurus threatened thumbing thundered tightened tilting towered towering trickled trifling trounce trove tufts twanging uncomfortably uncommon unnoticed unsuspecting urgency ushered utterly vicious virago volatile wafted waking warily wart wary westville wheeled wheezed whipping whisking who'd whooped widow withycombe writer yanked ze zealously