| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| This Christmas season, join the girls of the mother-daughter book club for a variety of holiday-themed adventures! Becca, Megan, Emma, Cassidy and Jess have plenty of reading material to bring on their trips, too, because the book club is tackling the Betsy-Tacy series. |
Entertain |
Realistic Fiction |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 1860 |
4.8 |
880 |
Amazon
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| RDQ based on a maximum of 3000 words |
Levels are suggested levels based on RDQ, not official levels |
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| Sentences |
Total Words |
Different Words |
| Max Word/Sent |
58 |
Total # of Words |
3650 |
# of Different Words |
1062 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
11 |
Hi Freq occurs |
2694 |
73.8% |
# of Hi freq words |
436 |
41.1% |
| % of Long Sentences |
15.7 |
Low Freq occurs |
255 |
7% |
# of Low freq words |
192 |
18.1% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: No support |
| Dialog: Multiple speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker |
| Vocabulary: Some difficult words |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Many Long Complex |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Inferences: Some implications |
| Complexity: Several unrelated ideas |
| Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social |
| Chapters |
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| Features |
| Clear cause/effect |
| Simple Plot |
| First Person |
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| Topics |
| Sports |
| Challenges |
| *Family & Friends |
| Reading |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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absolute |
absolutely |
accent |
acton |
agency |
alcott |
announced |
appealing |
applications |
archrivals |
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barnacle |
beanie |
calliope |
calliope's |
classic |
classics |
clinches |
college |
combo |
compromise |
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concord |
dealing |
delaney |
desperately |
disappointed |
dodges |
dorkier |
dorks |
dramatically |
draping |
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dude |
ecstatic |
elbowing |
elite |
embarrassing |
employees |
encouragement |
eyre |
fabulous |
familiar |
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feebly |
fleece |
flicking |
formal |
frenzy |
gak |
generous |
genius |
giantess |
glance |
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gloat |
gloss |
gloved |
glued |
goalposts |
gotta |
gross |
grosses |
gushy |
haired |
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halftime |
hart |
hawthorne |
hawthornes |
holler |
hopeful |
hoping |
humor |
hypnotize |
inconvenient |
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incredibly |
instance |
insurance |
intercept |
involves |
jammies |
jersey |
jostling |
kicker |
kimball's |
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kinkaid |
knit |
knowing |
landscape |
launch |
layoff |
leftovers |
leggings |
librarian |
license |
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linemen |
literally |
lovelace |
lowered |
lumbering |
manage |
manages |
maroon |
maud |
mention |
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mentioned |
midwest |
miniskirts |
minnesota |
mischief |
mortifying |
motor |
musty |
nineteenth |
norton |
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o'donnell |
oblivious |
olds |
opted |
organized |
overheard |
partner |
patched |
paused |
pda |
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pep |
pepperoni |
pester |
petite |
phoebe |
plucked |
pounce |
pounced |
pouring |
practically |
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racehorse |
ref's |
replies |
ritual |
rituals |
scowled |
scrunch |
section |
senior |
sensed |
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sensibility |
series |
seriously |
sidelines |
sideways |
skyward |
sloane |
slugged |
smothers |
soars |
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sophomores |
spending |
sprints |
stealer |
stewart |
stewart's |
stickler |
stunned |
stupidly |
surges |
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swap |
swats |
swear |
sweetie |
swiftly |
teeniest |
theater |
thermos |
tote |
tournament |
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tradition |
traditional |
triumphantly |
trombone |
twentieth |
uniforms |
universe |
veggie |
visible |
walden |
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wavy |
weird |
whipping |
whirling |
winona |
wong |
wong's |
wrath |
wrenches |
yoga |
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zach |
zach's |
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