Title - Maniac Magee Author: Spinelli, Jerry Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre He wasn’t born with the name Maniac Magee. He came into this world named Jeffrey Lionel Magee, but when his parents died and his life changed, so did his name. And Maniac Magee became a legend. Entertain Adventure RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2113 5.1 920 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 62 Total # of Words 3305 # of Different Words 987 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 2459 74.4% # of Hi freq words 415 42% % of Long Sentences 16.1 Low Freq occurs 231 7% # of Low freq words 186 18.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Chapters Sequence of Events: Chronological Features Character traits Topics Inclusion Homes *Community Heroes Helping Legends Low Frequency Words ability accounts accurate alongside apparently audience auditorium birch blundering boomerangs borrow breathless bulging buzzlike carcass cardinal chittering chorus cinders clamoring classers cobble's commotion conked crouched crusade deirdre deirdre's denehy didi differ dion divorce dominic drawer drowned emanations encyclopedia exacter fiction figuring finsterwald finsterwald's finsterwallies flopping giggling glared goers goggle gonna greats grungy hallucination hauling hesitated hinges hoisted hoisters hollidaysburg honest horsefly hunched hurled infamous instance instant intended jogging kaboodle knob krimpets league legacy legend limits lionel loaned lunging magee magee's maniac maniac's matinees maw midst mirage model monument motorman musicale myth namely nation niac nicotine nonfiction nowhere obvious occasionally onion ordinary oriole outsider paperkid paralyzed pause pavement pennsylvania phantom pickwell pickwell's pickwells pleads pleeeese pong property puckered punt punted puzzlement pyramid python quarterback raggedy rako rattling reeled refrigerators relatives risers roamed sacrifice samaritan schooler schoolers schuylkill scraggly screamer shins shovel shuffling sideline slush smatter snare snatched soled soles speeded spiraling springy squawks squint streaking strolled stunned stupefied suffice surrounding survival suspicious swan swears sycamore theories toasters tongues trolley truly twanged unanswered unfortunately upfield valued varsity volume weaving whirled whispers whistled whistles whites wretch yarder yawning zillion