| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Thanks to Uncle Yudel, Benjie finally has a violin. But in Chicago's crowded tenements, the neighbors lose patience with the screeching fiddle. Forced to practice on the roof, Benjie meets his neighbor Hannah, who teaches him all about the night skies. |
Entertain |
Historical Fiction |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 1042 |
3.7 |
750 |
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 |
28 |
Total # of Words |
3105 |
# of Different Words |
850 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
7 |
Hi Freq occurs |
2230 |
71.8% |
# of Hi freq words |
385 |
45.3% |
| % of Long Sentences |
3.7 |
Low Freq occurs |
139 |
4.5% |
# of Low freq words |
101 |
11.9% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: No support |
| Dialog: Multiple speakers |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Table of Contents |
| Glossary |
| Chapters |
| Headings |
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| Features |
| Integral Setting - Historical |
| Simple Plot |
| Difficult names |
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| Topics |
| Learning |
| Behaviors |
| Lying |
| Talents |
| *Music |
| Performing |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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advertisement |
applauded |
blurted |
borscht |
burlap |
butcher |
concert |
concerts |
confronted |
constellations |
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customers |
deception |
defiantly |
desperation |
dovid |
dovid's |
draco |
dreaded |
eased |
escaped |
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flanagan |
flurry |
fortune |
golda |
golda's |
gossen |
grocery |
herring |
hesitated |
horizon |
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horseradish |
hunched |
imagined |
improved |
interests |
kessler |
kosher |
lengthened |
levitsky |
longing |
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meshuggeneh |
mitzvah |
moonlight |
mouthful |
musician |
mussed |
neighbor's |
neighborhood |
particularly |
pausing |
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peering |
pelted |
perch |
pleaded |
plucking |
positioned |
positions |
prayers |
pure |
rabbi |
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rabinovitch |
racked |
racket |
reared |
recognized |
repositioned |
responded |
rooftop |
sake |
savoring |
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sawing |
schoolwork |
science |
screech |
secondhand |
sha |
spilling |
springtime |
stable |
stages |
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stalls |
startled |
stoop |
swirling |
threaded |
treadle |
trolley |
tuned |
twitch |
uncovered |
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venus |
violin |
violinist |
violins |
wearily |
whinnied |
winced |
wolfed |
yiddish |
yudel |
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yudel's |
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