Title - New Moon Author: Meyer, Stephenie Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre When the Cullens, including Bella's beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a cult and changes in terrible ways. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2228 5.3 930 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 65 Total # of Words 4132 # of Different Words 1226 Ave Word/.Sent 12 Hi Freq occurs 3098 75% # of Hi freq words 489 39.9% % of Long Sentences 15.5 Low Freq occurs 307 7.4% # of Low freq words 280 22.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concept: Fanciful Chapters Features Character traits Integral Setting Complex plot Mood/tone First Person Topics Challenges *Fictional Ideas/Charac *Feelings, Behaviors Vampires Werewolves Low Frequency Words ability abruptly accepted accumulated achieved addition administrators afghan ambush amusement anxious apparently appreciate articulation awkwardness blacktop bloodthirsty breakable breathed bristly calendar callous capulets casting casual category cheekbones clock's college comparison concentrated conversation credits curled curve cushion deserved despair diamond disapproval disarray dissolved distracting dizzying document doubt dramatically drawn dreading drizzly ease effortlessly emmett's enclosed enthusiasm enthusiastic eventually evidence exception excruciatingly exhale exposed exposing extraordinarily extreme familiar favors fictional forfeited formal fortune forwarding fully future gelled gilt glance glancing glared glaring glistening glitters gossip gracefully graduated gran's grateful guilty halfheartedly handled happiest happiness hazardous heartbeats honest honestly hoping horrified hurtful hyperactively ignored ignoring imitation immortal impasse impending income inexorably infinitely informed inhale inspiration intended intent interrupted intimidating invisible involve irresistible ivory jawline jolt juliet juliet's kindergarten klutz laughter lauren likely lingered liquid lodged lungs lurked manage memorized microscopic mimic mimicked minor mirrored momentarily montagues mortality motionlessly mourn movement mysterious nightmare nightmares object objected offended officially opinion ostracism otherwise outcome overcast panicked passenger patience paused peninsula percent perched performed personal personality phase physical plainly pointedly positive precious precisely preferable preferably presented process prominent prophetic pucker pulse quantifiable rainiest raising razor reasons reception reciprocate reflection rejected related relationship relentless rene respected respond restaurant reunion rhetorical ridiculously romeo's rosaline roundness salary scarier scrambling scrapbook sculpture seattle senior shaft shakespeare shards sheepishly shone shower shushed siblings similarities sixties sluggish smoldered smugly soles somewhat southern spending spiky sporting spotlight sprawled stammered startlingly stereo stock strangely strolling stubborn stutter sunbeams surrounded survived tawny technically tempered terrifying theory thoroughly threat thudding tightened toll tolled tousled tribute trivial truce tuition uncanny uncaring uncomfortable uncomprehending unfathomable unlimited unnecessarily upward vehemently velvet venom vision voiced withered wizened wrinkled wrinkles