Title - Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Cake! Author: Sobol, Donald J. Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Ten-year-old detective Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown solves The Case of the Missing Garlic Bread and other food-related mysteries. Figure out if Willford's painting of the Liberty Bell is a fake, then celebrate with red, white, and blue shortcake. Entertain Mystery RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 890 3.4 720 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 37 Total # of Words 1434 # of Different Words 564 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 889 62% # of Hi freq words 221 39.2% % of Long Sentences 2.3 Low Freq occurs 97 6.8% # of Low freq words 69 12.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Captions Chapters Features Topics Mystery Recipes Cooking Stealing Problem Solving Crime Detectives *Home Arts & Food *Citizenship & Laws Low Frequency Words advised agency approaching bested breathed danish dealt detective dipple disgustedly dreamland encyclopedia encyclopedia's evidence excitedly expenses fibbing flown garlic gasoline graham heavily holmes honest honesty idaville idaville's ignored ingredients kimball knives larsen leroy mischief naw neighborhood nickname oatmeal ought parsley partner peeler powwowed president pretzel prove prune purpose recipe rover runaway sherlock smote solution spike squashed sweeney's sweeten swivel tangled tilted toolshed unused unwashed whiff whipple whipplewhite willingly windowsill