| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Maddie and her sister, Evie, have just moved to a farm called Horsetail Hollow. Maddie dreams of a horse of her own. Evie would rather read her favorite book of fairy tales. They are disappointed to discover that there are no horses—or fairy-tale princesses—on this farm. |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 1114 |
3.8 |
760 |
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 |
24 |
Total # of Words |
3010 |
# of Different Words |
884 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
6 |
Hi Freq occurs |
2134 |
70.9% |
# of Hi freq words |
381 |
43.1% |
| % of Long Sentences |
1.1 |
Low Freq occurs |
154 |
5.1% |
# of Low freq words |
117 |
13.2% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: No support |
| Dialog: Multiple speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Chapters |
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| Topics |
| Dreams |
| *Animals |
| Farms |
| Horses |
| *Feelings, Behaviors |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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andalusian |
annoyed |
avail |
bales |
breastplate |
busier |
cartwheel |
cautious |
chasing |
chestnut |
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clickity |
curls |
curtains |
destined |
dimpled |
disappearing |
disgrace |
disturbed |
emblazoned |
encyclopedia |
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engraved |
equipment |
evie |
evie's |
exploring |
faraway |
fenced |
furrow |
furrowed |
gazed |
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gazing |
grooming |
hairstyles |
hammered |
hammering |
heeled |
hesitated |
hollow |
hopeful |
horsetail |
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illustrated |
imagined |
invisible |
itty |
jeweled |
keyboard |
kidnapping |
kingdom |
legged |
longingly |
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loosen |
lowered |
maddie's |
magical |
magnificent |
medallion |
mistaking |
mowed |
murmured |
muttered |
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neighbors |
noble |
overgrown |
owe |
paddock |
palomino |
pasture |
patched |
paused |
peered |
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phillipses |
practically |
preferred |
rammed |
ramsey |
ramsey's |
rapunzel |
rapunzel's |
regal |
reins |
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rescued |
ringed |
roaming |
rotted |
rustling |
sagged |
sanded |
sauce |
scent |
scowled |
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scrambled |
seventy |
shingles |
sleepily |
spicy |
spied |
squealed |
stables |
stalls |
stirred |
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stirring |
surrounding |
swallows |
sworn |
symbol |
tangled |
tidy |
twilight |
undignified |
uniforms |
|
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vane |
wandered |
wanders |
whinny |
widened |
wobbling |
yawning |
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