Title - Nate the Great and the Stolen Base Author: Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman Publisher: Dell Publishing Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Rosamund's baseball team has a very unusual second base -Oliver's gloopy purple plastic octopus. But one morning... it's gone! "Somebody stole second base," Rosamond tells teammate Nate the Great. Entertain Mystery RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 419 2.5 610 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 26 Total # of Words 2139 # of Different Words 451 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 1474 68.9% # of Hi freq words 208 46.1% % of Long Sentences 0.3 Low Freq occurs 35 1.6% # of Low freq words 21 4.7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Simple language Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Topics Mystery Teams/Teamwork Searching/Hunting Friendship Games Low Frequency Words curled curling detective esmeralda fielding gloopy gripped mascot mascots mattered nowhere octopus's oozy peer peered pocked shrugged sludge snatch snatched tuna