Title - Night of the Ninjas Author: Osborne, Mary Pope Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Have you ever met a real live ninja? Jack and Annie do when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to ancient Japan, where they find themselves in the cave of a ninja master. Will they learn the secrets of the ninja? Or will the evil samurai warriors get them first? Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 884 3.4 720 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 22 Total # of Words 3167 # of Different Words 703 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 2321 73.3% # of Hi freq words 324 46.1% % of Long Sentences 0.2 Low Freq occurs 73 2.3% # of Low freq words 48 6.8% 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 Table of Contents Chapters Headings Features Integral Setting - Historical Simple Plot Topics Time Travel/Traveling Cultures *History Low Frequency Words absolutely breathed calmly crouched flaming flickering gathering grove hy japanese librarian library's lowered magical mercy missions moonlight motioned mysterious nature ninja's pennsylvania piercing pouch prologue prove rungs sake samurai scarves shallow spies spine squishy streaked sweatshirt swirled sword swords torches twilight warlords warrior warriors windowsill worthy woven yourselves