Title - Leepike Ridge Author: Wilson, N. D. Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre While his widowed mother continues to search for him, eleven-year-old Tom, presumed dead after drifting away down a river, finds himself trapped in a series of underground caves with another survivor and a dog and pursued by murderous treasure hunters. Entertain Adventure RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1600 4.4 840 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 51 Total # of Words 4122 # of Different Words 1055 Ave Word/.Sent 12 Hi Freq occurs 3170 76.9% # of Hi freq words 483 45.8% % of Long Sentences 22 Low Freq occurs 168 4.1% # of Low freq words 150 14.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Sequence of Events: Chronological Features Character traits Integral Setting Complex Problem/Solution Simple Plot Unusual use of vocabulary Topics Treasures Challenges Actions Danger Lost Problem Solving Greed Underground Caves Low Frequency Words ache actual admitting anchored appliances approached arched assault assaulting assigning billowing bombarded cautious chained chapped cheerfulness chokes clods collected competing concerned concrete contrast conversation conversations crescent cruder curse curtains curving cushion decision deliverymen descend determination determined dingy dislike dispensed dispensers disputing disturbed doubt drowned electrical electrically embarrassed eventually exhaled eyed flexing freckles frequently fridges glance glared gravel gripped grossed harbor healthy heavily heightened hurled imagination impulse incredulous intend intended intention knelt lanky lidded lifetimes lightbulbs meadow misbehaving moonlight moonlit mouthful mouthfuls murmured muttered occasional occasionally onces operation option otherwise overlooked parted particular passengers perched pictured pleasant pleasantly pleasantries polo pouch preoccupation receding reeds reeled refrigeration refrigerator retrieved ridges rounded route saggy scrambling sculpting secretive shaggy situation skimmed slender solitary spike squatted stirring straightened stubbornly styrofoam surges sweat sweatshirt tabletop tangled thoughtfully thunderstorms tidied tote tour unbuttoned uncoil unhealthy unpredictable upstream variety veatch veatch's vertical views villainous wandered warranty waterfront whispers