Title - Dead End in Norvelt Author: Gantos, Jack Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for Jack, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is "grounded for life" by his feuding parents. Entertain Adventure RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2052 5.0 910 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 85 Total # of Words 3694 # of Different Words 1105 Ave Word/.Sent 14 Hi Freq occurs 2789 75.5% # of Hi freq words 458 41.4% % of Long Sentences 24.1 Low Freq occurs 218 5.9% # of Low freq words 176 15.9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Sequence of Events: Chronological Features Character traits Integral Setting Parallel plots First Person Topics Mystery Age/Aging *Community Helping *Family & Friends Low Frequency Words admiration advantage ambulance anemic assault atahualpa auction binoculars bloodied bloodstains blubbered blunderbuss boatloads breathed bunker camouflage casually charity civilization commies community conquer conquest conquistadors construction coop courage cure curls desperately disease disrespectful disturbing drifty elegant elementary emergency episode erected exclamation factly farrier fewer flickering flintlock flinty flung fully fuse gazed general girlfriends glumly gradually grief grinding gripped grounded gunpowder harsh hobbled hoisted hooves huffiness icing instant instinctively instructed invasion itchy japanese jewelry jungles kimono kneecap knowing launch lied loaning lowered lunged marine marines martial massive medicine military nasally navy necked neighbors newly nosebleed nosebleeder notch obsessing organ oxygen pacific painfully palaces palmettos panic peonies pizarro plucked plumber polio pounced prickly project projector pure raided ransom razor recently reflective regret reset reward riled rough roughly sailor scope scorched sculpted sculptures series seriously showered shriek sliding snaking sniper sniper's soldier solomons souvenirs spattered spewed squad startled statues stock stressed stripped strolled stunt swag swear sweat swiped sword tabletop theater tinted tissue tissues torturous tragic trigger turkeys viking violence vital volunteer wad wailing warned warnings weighed why'd wilt worth younger