| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Miss Merriweather, the head librarian, is very particular about rules in the library. No running allowed. And you must be quiet. But when a lion comes to the library one day, no one is sure what to do. |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 481 |
2.7 |
630 |
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 |
38 |
Total # of Words |
1373 |
# of Different Words |
369 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
6 |
Hi Freq occurs |
898 |
65.4% |
# of Hi freq words |
162 |
43.9% |
| % of Long Sentences |
1.4 |
Low Freq occurs |
35 |
2.5% |
# of Low freq words |
24 |
6.5% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Dialog: Two speakers |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
| Concept: Fanciful |
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| Topics |
| Lions |
| *Animals |
| Helping |
| Libraries |
| Rules |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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circulation |
comfy |
curled |
encyclopedias |
envelopes |
familiar |
furry |
hoping |
ignored |
librarian's |
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mcbee |
merryweather |
neighborhood |
notices |
overdue |
particular |
scowled |
shelves |
stern |
striding |
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suited |
twitched |
wandered |
whined |
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