Title - Happy New Year, Julie Author: McDonald, Megan Publisher: American Girl Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre When the Albrights are invited to the Lings' Chinese New Year banquet, Julie worries about how the two families will get along. Simultaneous. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1614 4.5 840 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 32 Total # of Words 3095 # of Different Words 970 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 2189 70.7% # of Hi freq words 409 42.2% % of Long Sentences 8.7 Low Freq occurs 151 4.9% # of Low freq words 117 12.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Mature concepts: With common experiences or clear fantasy Features Character traits Character development Simple Plot Topics Changes Divorce *Family & Friends *Holidays, Events, Cele China/Chinese Christmas Parents Low Frequency Words adorned anticipation ashbury burrowing c'mon caroling carols comer comforter comfy construction corduroys corning curled customers determined disappointed disappointment divorce embroidered fairmont fashioned fault feathery flannel flickering foil fondue gazed gazing gladrags glumly gonna gooey grinch groovy grunted gushed haight handing hollow honor hunkered hutch imagined ivy jeans joyous kindling knitting lampposts lighting lightly littered longed macrame martinelli mimicked money's mouthed neighborhood nosed nutcracker nutmeg origami ornament ornaments overstuffed paperback patchwork peacock pictured pincushion propped psychedelic purse racket redwood register reindeer rounded salvation scampered scent scissors scraggly season sewn sheepishly shrugged skeptically sounding sparkling spending spicy sporting sprucing stiffly storage strangely swallow swamped tangled thermos thread tinsel tracy transistor twined veterans views wholeheartedly workshop wrapping wrappings wreaths yawn