Title - Harriet's Hare Author: King-Smith, Dick Publisher: Alfred A Knopf Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Eight-year-old Harriet Butler, a young English girl, is astonished to meet a space alien who's vacationing in her dad's wheat field, disguised as a rabbit! Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1167 3.9 770 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 2248 # of Different Words 692 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 1599 71.1% # of Hi freq words 298 43.1% % of Long Sentences 12.9 Low Freq occurs 124 5.5% # of Low freq words 98 14.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Concept: Fanciful Table of Contents Chapters Features Character traits Simple Plot Topics *Space Changes Magic Language Wizard *Animals Aliens Romance Low Frequency Words ability abroad acre aliens amazement astonishing astonishment avail calves colleagues conversation d'you dewy disappointed duster enormously europaeus excellent extraterrestrials fortunate fully gateway general grooming handsome harvesting hedge herbs herd hind ignorant imagined incidentally inquiring instance intend interplanetary jugged kernels languages latin lepus likely longhanger loped loping magical magician microsurgery midsummer milker milking mistaking motionless natives nowadays occidentalis omnilingual paddock parlor pars partians pasture perfected prick primitive quieted reappear ridiculous ripeness roan rustling satellite sheepdog sideways solar specimen squashed squatting stalks stillness tawny tearing technology terribly terrified theories throughout tornado transform trudged vortex warn wheatfield whirling wiltshire witchcraft woken