Title - Encyclopedia Brown Keeps The Peace Author: Sobol, Donald J. Publisher: Reading A-Z Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre As Idaville's ten-year-old star detective, Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown has an uncanny knack for trivia. With his unconventional knowledge, he solves mysteries for the neighborhood kids through his own detective agency. Entertain Mystery RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1313 4.1 800 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 29 Total # of Words 3277 # of Different Words 955 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 2280 69.6% # of Hi freq words 426 44.6% % of Long Sentences 2.2 Low Freq occurs 151 4.6% # of Low freq words 99 10.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Character traits Complex Problem/Solution Topics Laws Problem Solving Crime Detectives *Citizenship & Laws Low Frequency Words aces agency alibi blubberbrain borrowed breathed calmly delicatessens denver detective detective's doubt drippings encyclopedia encyclopedia's gary gases gasoline gassed glared gleefully glumly grief gunman hale hardware headquarters highly holt honest icehouse idaville idaville's immediately innocent inquired jeered junior karate kimball lefts leroy level lighthouse longed lungs mastermind mischief muscle muttered mysterious nation national neighborhood nickname object ought outsmart pained partner phony picket pointedly poisonous prove questioned recall recognize restaurant robbery rooftops rounded rover seaside shelves shortly smoothly snarled sneered stewart stickup strutted subscription suntan swallowed sympathetically synagogue texans theaters threatened tonic unbuttoned unused warned wiggins wilford worriedly wrist wrists wristwatch