| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| When a puppy that is being trained as a police dog goes missing, third-grader Judy forms a detective agency to solve the mystery, imitating her literary heroine, Nancy Drew. |
Entertain |
Mystery |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 1237 |
4.0 |
790 |
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 |
39 |
Total # of Words |
2492 |
# of Different Words |
781 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
7 |
Hi Freq occurs |
1549 |
62.2% |
# of Hi freq words |
299 |
38.3% |
| % of Long Sentences |
4.6 |
Low Freq occurs |
118 |
4.7% |
# of Low freq words |
87 |
11.1% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Dialog: Multiple speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker |
| Vocabulary: Some difficult words |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Inferences: Some implications |
| Complexity: Several unrelated ideas |
| Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social |
| Chapters |
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| Features |
| Character traits |
| Simple Plot |
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| Topics |
| Mystery |
| Problem Solving |
| Detectives |
| *Feelings, Behaviors |
| Pets |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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absolute |
bonking |
bothersome |
c'mon |
chums |
classics |
collected |
convertible |
cubbies |
cuckoo |
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detective |
diaries |
diary |
disguise |
drawer |
dwarves |
egghead |
eiffel |
encyclopedia |
finch |
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finch's |
flaming |
fortune |
genius |
gonna |
gotta |
guinea |
handing |
haunted |
heartbeat |
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hollow |
honest |
imagination |
jeepers |
kidnapped |
lenses |
lousy |
madame |
magnifying |
mansions |
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messages |
mini |
misplaced |
motorcycles |
mustache |
mysteries |
nancy's |
nightmare |
noggin |
official |
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original |
overachieving |
peered |
phantom |
positive |
practicing |
president |
python |
pythons |
rocky's |
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samoa |
scaredy |
scaring |
sideways |
signaling |
sleuth |
snorky |
sos |
spectacles |
spine |
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squinted |
stealer |
stellar |
stinker |
studied |
stumpy |
tablet |
tarantella |
tarantula |
thumping |
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togo |
tote |
tubbies |
tweezers |
unzipped |
weird |
why's |
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