Title - Jacob Have I Loved Author: Paterson, Katherine Publisher: Addison-Wesley Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Louise has had enough of her twin sister. Growing up on the small island of Rass in Chesapeake Bay, Caroline seems to do nothing but take from Louise. They have spent their lives entwined and yet somehow nothing can bring them together. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2515 5.8 980 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 60 Total # of Words 3615 # of Different Words 1105 Ave Word/.Sent 13 Hi Freq occurs 2705 74.8% # of Hi freq words 460 41.6% % of Long Sentences 26.1 Low Freq occurs 292 8.1% # of Low freq words 233 21.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Mature concepts: With common experiences or clear fantasy Features Integral Setting Complex plot Topics Attitudes Overcoming War Self Esteem Family *Life Styles Islands *Family & Friends Sea Low Frequency Words aft aloof announcer announcers apostle avid basking benevolently bespectacled billionth births blessed blowfish brackish britches burden cajoled cedar collected concealed concentration consumption cordgrass crabbers crabbing crimson crisscrossed crockery culled curling cuss deceptively defect delaying delusions deposited deprived deserved despite determined dismissed distinctive donned doubled dunking eelgrass eking elder elegant emphatic emptied erected excess excused fantasies ferry finance fistful fore fount fragile framing fully general generous german goosebumps gotta gritted grunted gymnasium harbor harvest healing hell hoarded hoping hospitals hull ignored illness immediately importance indulge island's islander jagged judgment kellam's kin kinda kindly kitten's laboring ladled lawyer legged likely loblolly looniness marriage marsh mattress matured mccall meager meanly mercy methodist mew midwife mingled minor musings mysterious napoleon nature nauseated nearsighted negative newborn newly nostrils obeyed olive oppose otherwise otis ought overalls overhalls oysters pastime paused pearly peeler peelers peer perch personality picket planking poled politics precarious presumed primly progging pronunciation propane psychiatrist psychiatry pudgy pure purnell quaint rass recount refused regained relatively represented rice's romance romantic rough rowed sainted sapling satisfaction schoolmistress securely security semblance sensed separate shanty shards shelling sherry shipping shrapnel skiff slat smacked snatched sook sorrow source spending spindly spine splurge spoonful squish stank starboard stern stomachs storage strenuously surrounded sweetheart swerve teamwork terrapin thou threat thwart treasured tying unattached undaunted union unpainted unsentimental unwelcome valuable vocabulary wail warily washboard washboards waterman waterman's wealth weekday who're widowed winch witted women's yanked yanking