Title - Gathering Blue Author: Lowry, Lois Publisher: Dell Publishing Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Kira is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians in a world where the weak are usually cast aside. When she is given a task that no other community member can carry out, Kira soon realizes that she is surrounded by many mysteries and secrets. Entertain Science Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2863 6.6 1050 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 58 Total # of Words 3439 # of Different Words 977 Ave Word/.Sent 12 Hi Freq occurs 2547 74.1% # of Hi freq words 382 39.1% % of Long Sentences 17.3 Low Freq occurs 255 7.4% # of Low freq words 210 21.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Abstract/Difficult Chapters Mature Concepts: With some uncommon experiences Features Complex plot Mood/tone Topics *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words abundant acknowledged acknowledgment addition aloneness amuse angrily annoyed approached assuming awe bickering boundaries brazenly burden burnt cadence casualness chippies cindered cleverness companions constant construct contemptuously contribute cotts cringing crude cruelty curious curt deformed departed devoured dialect diminished disagreeable disobedient disorderly distributed diversions dragger draggers emerged enclosed encrusted enlist entwined envious essential eventually fanciful fatherless fen festive festivity fiercely firelight firestarting fitted flailing flattery flawed flourished forage fortunate foul foulsmelling fowls frequently future gardening greatly gripped guardian guarding haired harsh healthy heared hesitation horrid household hubby hunger identifiable iffen immediately imperfect importance infants involved irritable kira kira's labor laborer leavetaking leavings lingered lingering location measured merciful methodically mistaken mouthful mustn't naked neared nonetheless occasional oddly overheard participate particularly paused pleasantries plentiful pliable presence propelled properly puberty reassured rebuild rebuilding recognition recognized refuse reliable reluctant remarkable require respected restless ripening rituals riverbank rounding ruefully saplings satisfaction satisfied sauntered scampering scramble shared shrill shudder sickness sidelines sleepily slender smoothness smudge spat speech squinted stripped structure structures sturdy summerstart superior supple swampy syllable syllables tempered tentatively terribly terrifying thread threading threadings tidy timbers toddlers toddling toppled tubers tussling tyke tykes unable unbelievable uncertainly uncertainty underbrush unexpected unnamed untended upright valuable vital vying wary weapons weaving whimpered whined whipped whirl whisper willful wisps wrinkled younger