Title - Define Normal Author: Peters, Julie Anne Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre When Antonia agrees to meet with Jasmine as a peer counselor, she never dreams that this girl with the black lipstick and pierced eyebrow will become a good friend and will help her deal with the serious problems she faces at home. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2614 6.0 990 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 40 Total # of Words 3271 # of Different Words 1018 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 2330 71.2% # of Hi freq words 394 38.7% % of Long Sentences 1.8 Low Freq occurs 263 8% # of Low freq words 209 20.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Chapters Mature concepts: With common experiences or clear fantasy Features Character traits Character development Complex character relationships Complex Problem/Solution Clear cause/effect Parallel plots First Person Topics Challenges Behaviors Family Rebel/Rebellion Choices *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors Parents Low Frequency Words abandoned accomplished activities affirming apparently appointments approaching appropriate arched assignment audibly banquet bartoli billfold blurted borrow boyfriends bureau caddy calmed cap'n chided college compassion concentrated conference confidentiality consciousness conversation convincing counseling counselor countered crisper curricular dealing defined desperately dileo distracted doubt drawer druggie earring eerie embarrassed emergency envelopes equations exhaustion eyeing facility faculty familiar fault fibbed flailed flinched flounced flung foreign formica fortune freckles fumed gape girlfriends gotta gourmet grapevine groceries grocery groused guardian gymnastics hastily hollered homeroom honor hugo hurricane hustled hysterics icebreaker ideal illegibly instant instructions introduction inwardly jealous jeans kentucky knelt knotted knowing laundry lavender liberry littered looped lowered luther's major marsh mascara masochist mayonnaise minor mocking motioned musician musky must've muttered muttering naw neighbor's nostrils noticeable noxious oath oberlin occasionally opposite overwhelmed participate pc peer peered pelting peppermint perforated perfume permission piercing pleated powdered pregnant prep prethent proceeded professional progress proposed provided psychologist psychotherapy pucker punctuated punker punkers purse quadratic reek refrigerator regaining register reserve retrieving richter rimmed rumpled sacrifice scrounged seared sessions shelves should've shoved shrugged shuffled slayer smirked smoothed sneered sniffled snitched sparkling squinted stifled stirred stock straddled strewn studied subhuman supervised sweater sweetie swept tabletop threaded threatened truly uncomfortably visa wandering what've whipped whirled widened wither wrapper wrenched wrist yanked yawned younger