Title - M. C. Higgins, the Great Author: Hamilton, Virginia Publisher: Aladdin Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Thirteen-year-old Mayo Cornelius Higgins sits on his gleaming, forty-foot steel pole, towering over his home. And, one day, atop his pole, two strangers are making their way toward Sarah's Mountain. One has the ability to make M.C.'s mother famous. And the other has the kind of freedom that M.C. has never even considered. Entertain Adventure RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2156 5.2 920 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 31 Total # of Words 3430 # of Different Words 1002 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 2421 70.6% # of Hi freq words 424 42.3% % of Long Sentences 6.8 Low Freq occurs 181 5.3% # of Low freq words 141 14.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Colorful, figurative Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Difficult Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Features Character traits Character development Simple Plot Topics Environment Homes *Family & Friends Low Frequency Words abundance admiring announced anxious assured bottomless boughs burial cautiously commenced cough craned crouch currents dawns deliverin depth drowned dude dude's eastern edgy eerily entwined errand eveningtime exhausted eying fellow forgers fretful furtively gashes ginseng glimpse gobbled gobbling growth gurgled harenton higgins horizontally humidity icehouse innocent instant ironed irritated irritation ivy jeans kill's killburn killburn's killburns knowing lattice lazily lightly likely lingering lithe looping lure massive mayo meander midair midst mining monstrous motion motions mound mountainside mouthed muscular naturally network nightmares nipped obvious odors opposite oppressive ordinary outcropping outlines patches peering perspiring pictured picturing piney plateau pleasure plunged ponderous positive ravine recorder regard reluctantly respectfully rotting seepage shoved shoving slicked sliding snatches spidery spied sprung stalk stillness straightened striding subsoil surround suspected suspended swiftly swooshed tangled trampled trances trapdoor turkeys unsmiling unspoken uprights uprooting varying wafted warned wetness wrist wrists yelp youngest