Title - Lunch Money Author: Clements, Andrew Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Greg Kenton has two obsessions -- making money and his long-standing competition with his annoying neighbor, Maura Shaw. So when Greg discovers that Maura is cutting into his booming Chunky Comics business, he's ready to declare war. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1493 4.3 820 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 83 Total # of Words 3137 # of Different Words 910 Ave Word/.Sent 15 Hi Freq occurs 2234 71.2% # of Hi freq words 377 41.4% % of Long Sentences 30.2 Low Freq occurs 142 4.5% # of Low freq words 116 12.7% 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 Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Features Character traits Character development Clear cause/effect Simple Plot Topics Teacher/Teaching Wealth Money Buying/Selling Saving Problem Solving *Economics *Schools & Education School Low Frequency Words absolutely account allowances aluminum amateur announced ashworth beanie borrow cafeteria calculations cashman clinking collected college com customers dandelions doritos drawer embarrassed emptied excellent fifties fortune garages griped grocery hobart housekeeping imagination insisting instant insurance intermediate investments japanese jingling kenton laundry lemonade lemont lending lunches magazines magnifying mccormick memorial mercury moneybags moneymaking neighborhood neon nicknames nursery opportunities opportunity pacific particular patient percent pockets policy preschooler president presidents private professional profit raked recycling refunds repay retrieved reward rumpled sacagawea scheme schemes science seaplane seasons secretary service sessions shortly shovel shoveled shoveling shrubs sidewalks sketching slobs social sparkly straightened studied studies supermarket suspiciously swept theater tidy transformed treasury treatment tryouts tutor twenties underwear valuable wallet whiz who'd wiry worth