Title - Fortunately, The Milk Author: Gaiman, Neil Publisher: Harper Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre A story with equal parts pirates and piranhas, adventure and aliens, oddity and love. "I bought the milk," said my father. "I walked out of the corner shop, and heard a noise like this: t h u m m t h u m m. I looked up and saw a huge silver disc hovering in the air above Marshall Road." Entertain Adventure RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1503 4.3 830 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 51 Total # of Words 3010 # of Different Words 779 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 2308 76.7% # of Hi freq words 342 43.9% % of Long Sentences 11 Low Freq occurs 160 5.3% # of Low freq words 119 15.3% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Concept: Fanciful Mature concepts: With common experiences or clear fantasy Features First Person Unusual use of vocabulary Topics Time Storytelling Fathers Dinosaurs *Fictional Ideas/Charac Low Frequency Words according adventures amazement angelic awaken bluey bucko carrier carriers circling clambered conference continuum cowardly crunchers cutlass defrosted descend destination destruction diamonds discharged doubloon drinky edged emerald emergency encouragement enthusiastic excellent flaming fletcher floaty flush fortunately freshwater further future glimmery globby greeny hairless happier harvest honesty hovering hurled insults interrupted inventing inventor jewel knives labeled landlubber lurch majesty mammal marshall mayonnaise messengers miserable muesli mushrooms nailing narrowly nevertheless nicolsons oblige obliged odder orchestra original ownership peaceful piranhas piratical pistol pistols plank plumber practiced presenting pressy priest prophecy prostrated refuse remarkably remodel representative rescued restaurant rubies sacrifice sapphires sausages seawater shimmery skies specific speechless spiny steg stegosaurus stomachs suggest suspicious temperamental toastio toastios torches violin visible walrus weird wisps wobbled woken