| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Adam's father is in hospital and Adam has set off to visit him. It's a long, cold journey; as he travels along, Adam gets tired, and to take his mind off his exhaustion, he traces the events that led up to his father being taken to hospital. |
Entertain |
Adventure |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 3587 |
7+ |
1110 |
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 |
72 |
Total # of Words |
4987 |
# of Different Words |
1211 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
11 |
Hi Freq occurs |
3910 |
78.4% |
# of Hi freq words |
514 |
42.4% |
| % of Long Sentences |
19.4 |
Low Freq occurs |
303 |
6.1% |
# of Low freq words |
226 |
18.7% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: No support |
| Unconventional format |
| Vocabulary: Some difficult words |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Some Long/Complex |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Inferences: Required |
| Complexity: Several ideas - closely related |
| Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social |
| Chapters |
| Sequence of Events: Not chronological |
| Mature Concepts: With some uncommon experiences |
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| Features |
| Complex plot |
| Parallel plots |
| Ambiguous ending |
| Alternating voice |
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| Topics |
| Bullies |
| Danger |
| Behaviors |
| Memory/Memories |
| *Human Body & Health |
| *Feelings, Behaviors |
| Drugs |
| Mental Illness |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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accelerates |
ache |
aching |
administered |
advised |
aluminum |
angle |
announcer |
anxiety |
anxious |
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assassinations |
associate |
aura |
bulges |
bulging |
cabinet |
capsules |
caresses |
cellar |
cigarette |
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cigarettes |
claustrophobic |
comically |
confide |
confined |
confronts |
conserve |
consults |
courageous |
coward |
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curious |
curled |
dell |
delmonte |
departed |
despite |
destination |
determined |
disposal |
distracted |
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doubts |
dreary |
earliest |
editor |
elevators |
emergency |
exhaust |
fairfield |
fanfare |
fashioned |
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fatigue |
feeble |
fenders |
foil |
forge |
fortune |
framing |
furiously |
furry |
gasoline |
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glance |
glorious |
gravelly |
greyhound |
guide |
guiding |
handlebars |
harsher |
haunted |
headache |
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headlines |
heavily |
heigh |
hell |
hertz |
hesitate |
hesitating |
hovering |
hurtling |
identifications |
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immediately |
immensity |
impaled |
impressions |
insignificant |
insists |
inspected |
interval |
invade |
iwo |
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jima |
joyously |
kindly |
knitting |
knowing |
knowledge |
laughter |
lazily |
level |
licenses |
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lilac |
lonesome |
longingly |
lounge |
luggage |
lungs |
lurks |
madly |
massachusetts |
meadow |
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measure |
mechanic |
medication |
medicine |
merely |
momentum |
montreal |
monument |
motel |
motels |
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murders |
murmuring |
nauseous |
obliterating |
occasionally |
omen |
oozes |
panic |
panicky |
partially |
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participating |
particular |
passports |
pedaling |
perfume |
philosophically |
physical |
picket |
possession |
possibility |
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postpone |
prevented |
privacy |
proceed |
provisions |
questioner |
raided |
raucously |
realize |
receded |
|
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reckless |
regarded |
remembrance |
rental |
resembles |
resolute |
ridiculous |
rioting |
rotary |
route |
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rutterburg |
scotch |
scurrying |
securely |
series |
service |
seventy |
skipper |
sliding |
slithering |
|
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sloping |
soaring |
soothe |
source |
specialty |
specifically |
spending |
stalled |
startling |
straightaway |
|
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straying |
stunned |
stunt |
stunts |
suffocation |
surrounded |
suspend |
suspicion |
sweat |
swept |
|
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swiftly |
sympathetic |
tailor |
tenderness |
tension |
tentatively |
territory |
theme |
threatens |
tobacco |
|
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tooks |
transferred |
truly |
uncertain |
undertook |
unmoving |
upright |
upward |
vaguely |
veins |
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venture |
vermont |
vista |
voluntary |
vowed |
vulnerable |
warmth |
warped |
wavered |
weariness |
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weary |
whirling |
whispers |
wobbling |
wolfe |
younger |
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