Title - Investigators All Tide Up Author: Green, John Patrick Publisher: First Second Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre When a cruise captain is found drifting at sea and delirious, the search begins for his missing ship and passengers! Did it sink? Was it boat-napped? Are supernatural forces at play? Entertain Graphic Novel RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1837 4.7 880 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 39 Total # of Words 3292 # of Different Words 999 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 2269 68.9% # of Hi freq words 358 35.8% % of Long Sentences 2.4 Low Freq occurs 343 10.4% # of Low freq words 250 25% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Speech Bubbles Unconventional format Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Simple problem/solution Simple Plot Topics Mystery Searching/Hunting Ships *Fictional Ideas/Charac Sea Low Frequency Words aboard acquired afloat agency agents amenities announce announcing apparently arcade atlantis average bamooda billionaires bjorns boson branding buffet burglar butler captaining casual chef cici closure commoners conference confidence consumer contribute convinced corporation crackerdile crisis crocs cruises current debts deserve designer desoto detective discount dissolved disturbed dizcount dj dollaz dos dramatic elevator emotionally employee employees ensure evaporated evidence fashion faulty features figures flush flushing foreboding former fortune freelancers fulfill galley gator gators general gilded gimme gonna gotta gourd gustavo gustavo's harpoons height hijacked houdino houdino's hounding hq imagination inclusive incognito industry inspector interrupt invest invested investigating investigators investment investor investors jugular's kidnapped knots latter laundry lifeboats lifeguard lightweight liner links lousy luggage magnifying manatee manatees mango manhole manifest mcgee's meandering medical mention mere mingle miscellaneous mismatched mission monetized money's motion mustachio mustn't mutants mutiny naturally nautical navigate numero nylon ocho officially ohh ominous omnibus otherwise ourselves overboard paperwork partner passenger passengers percent perform personal personally petty plated plumbing porter posting preposterous preservers previous prison private professionals profit profitable prologue promotional proposition protocols proves public publicity puncher radioactive reassure recent recently recognition recycled regard rescued restaurant restroom risking rockodile rumor sailor saltine sasquatch schedule scheduled schmidlapp science scientist scritches seadues seaworthy security selfless septapus sewer should've skis social souls specifics squash staffed stavo storz suggest suits sunscreen surfboards survivors suspicious sven sven's technology temp tentacle terms theories throatchella trademarked tradition triangle tropical turbo uncertain uncover undercover uniforms uno updated vessel waffledile warned welfare what've whiskers whuuuu willies worth wrapper yacht yello youtube