Title - Midnight on the Moon Author: Osborne, Mary Pope Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie off to the moon—and the future. Their mission? To find the last "M" thing that will free Morgan from the spell. Can they do it before the air in their oxygen tank runs out? Will the mysterious moon man help them? Entertain Science Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1037 3.7 750 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 36 Total # of Words 3028 # of Different Words 755 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 2249 74.3% # of Hi freq words 340 45% % of Long Sentences 1.2 Low Freq occurs 87 2.9% # of Low freq words 64 8.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Concept: Fanciful Diagrams Features Integral Setting - Futuristic Topics *Space Flight/Flying Magic Moon Low Frequency Words absolutely airlock astronauts barren borrow bulky clumsily curved dashboard degrees diagrams egyptian equipment future gathering gloved goofed goofing gracefully jeans knights labeled librarian license lurched magical mammoth mango moonlight moonstone motel mysterious naturally peered peering pennsylvania policemen prologue radios rockier sesame shallow shelves shimmered shone slung spacecrafts spacesuit spacesuits squinted stillest stillness stoplights storeroom streamed structure suits sweatshirt tilted visor visors warned widened yawned