Title - Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood Author: Brashares, Ann Publisher: Delacorte Press Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The plot contains sexual situations. With unraveled embroidery and fraying hems, the Traveling Pants are back for one last, glorious summer. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2164 5.2 920 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 41 Total # of Words 3622 # of Different Words 1022 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 2760 76.2% # of Hi freq words 433 42.4% % of Long Sentences 7.8 Low Freq occurs 233 6.4% # of Low freq words 196 19.2% 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 Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Sequence of Events: Mostly chronological Mature concepts: With common experiences or clear fantasy Features Character traits Character development Complex character relationships Parallel plots Mood/tone Topics Love Family Friendship Choices *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors Relationships Low Frequency Words abdominal actual admiration aerobics angles annoyed antagonized appreciate appreciation authority beezy betray byes cafeteria camera's campus carmic ceremonial certainty challenging chaotic charged college com comfortless communal concentrating conciliating conversation crazes curtain deirdre desperation disclosure dislodge disturbances doofus echoed effect effects eighties electrical elude exception extraordinary eyeball familiar faraway fathom felicia's fiercely fitful fitting forearm fortunate freshman frisbee fully future gamely gathering gestured gilda's glimmer gomail gorgeous gratitude guilty gummi haired handsome happiness harmony hibernation hundredth hustled imprecise impression indifference instance instantly invisible istanbul kneecap launch lena lena's level lightly lingering lurch magical mattered meditated meditation mentioned mere meta minimum mirrors moments mulege mutedly nowhere obediently obsessed officially onstage onward opera operate otherwise overlapping parlor particular particularly pause personal plastering pleas plumbing plywood pose positioned posterity practical practiced presence presumed presumption pried production providence pruney psychology public pulsing quo react realize reasonably recently recognized redo refinishing register regret relation remarkable requiring restful reunited ritual roland rungs ryan separate seriously sibling snappish spending spite spree squinted staple statement status straightening supermodel suspected sweated sweatshirts swum terms thai theater theoretical thumbnail tingle triangle twentieth unbelievable uncertainty underwear unsatisfying vaguely vanity virtually visible wage waistband wanly windfall wistfully