Title - Olive's Ocean Author: Henkes, Kevin Publisher: Baker & Taylor Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her grandmother, on her feelings for an older boy, and on her plan to be a writer. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2576 5.9 990 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 44 Total # of Words 3746 # of Different Words 1177 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 2768 73.9% # of Hi freq words 505 42.9% % of Long Sentences 13.8 Low Freq occurs 236 6.3% # of Low freq words 203 17.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Inferences: Several Implications Concepts: Abstract/Difficult Sequence of Events: Mostly chronological Mature Concepts: With some uncommon experiences Features Character development Complex character relationships Complex Problem/Solution Mood/tone First Person Topics Growth/Growing Death Secrets *Community Boys/Girls Friendship Memory/Memories Towns *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words abandoning absolute accurate acne aired altered audible averted befriends blotchy bouquets camouflage carryout chalk claiming clears cocking coincidences compartments compel concerning content controlled crotch curb curbside curled curving decision dennis despised destination diaper diatribe digit eerie embarrassment emotion emphatically flicking floorboard freckles frequency galumphing gauzy glistened gotta gross grumpiness handwriting hollow hollowed honest horror hosted humidity idiot ignored ignoring illogical image imagined impact importance indicate injured instant instinctively intended intersected interviewed invaded invisible irritated jawline journal knickerbocker laced laundry lawyer leafing loneliness loner longing lurched mangoes mattress midsentence mirrors motion mounted movement mulled muscle napping nationally neighborhood noisily nostrils novel novels numbed nursery occupied occurred oddly offended olive opinion opinions orphan's outline pacific parted particular pause pavement pearls pedaled periodically perspective piercing plucked pouch private pronouncement public purpose quake rebroadcast recently rectangle referred reflecting refolded represents response retreating retrieved rhythm rouse rubbery rusted rustled sandals sarcastic scrunched scrutinized scuba scuzzbag separated series shared shrugged shrugging similar situation sleek smock smoothed soften source splayed squealed startling stifled stoop strand stripped stroller sunscreen surely surfaces surfacing swept syndicated telve thoughtfully thundered tightened toll tragedy twirling uglier unable unanswered unaware uncomplicated unfolded unique unnoticed unremarkable wakefulness weekday weird widened willful winced wrist writer younger youngest zippered