Title - From The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler Author: Konigsburg, E L Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre When Claudia decided to run away, she planned very carefully. She would be gone just long enough to teach her parents a lesson in Claudia appreciation. And she would go in comfort-she would live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Entertain Mystery RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1425 4.2 810 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 3139 # of Different Words 921 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 2252 71.7% # of Hi freq words 377 40.9% % of Long Sentences 19 Low Freq occurs 195 6.2% # of Low freq words 163 17.7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Chapters Features Character traits Simple Plot First Person Topics Money Hiding Problem Solving Museums *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words accompany accustomed actual adventurous allowance allowances appreciation association attorney babied bass blotting boloney boodle c'mon calculated casual cautious claudia claudia's commuting companion complicated complications concern conductor contents continuation decision delicate despised despite discomfort elegant emptied escaped expenses exposed fashioned fiscal flattered flattery forceps forefinger further gamble geography grammar greenwich guilt haven hesitated historical household humor icing impatient impossibly inconvenient indecent injustice injustices instruction instructions intended invitation involves johnathan jostling kincaid kleenex knapsack knapsacks labor ladies leftover legged lever mah manhattan meantime metropolitan miniature monotony muttered mutual neanderthal nostrils nuzzled obvious occasionally pamphlets partner patience pleaded plucked pockets pooched postpone precious preferably procedure pulp purchase purchased purpose raising refined regarded researched responsibility retracing reviewed richter richter's sake sameness saxonberg senseless separated shallow shalt shared shaven shavings shuffle simpler specialized speech spending sponsibility squinted stevie stifled studied suburb suburban suburbs suggestion sundaes tasteless tearing terribly thoroughness thou tourguide transistor tyrannies underwear untidy unzipped urge violin wanna wastebaskets waterproof whiffs whined wholeheartedly woolworth's worth younger youngest