Title - Quest for Clean Water Author: Bardhan-Quallen, Sudipta Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Ms. Harbor has a fun new project for the purrmaids: a scavenger hunt! The purrmaids must search Kittentail Cove to find items around the ocean. Some are rare, like a special piece of coral. And some are too plentiful--like plastic human garbage. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1084 3.8 760 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 29 Total # of Words 3070 # of Different Words 738 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 2085 67.9% # of Hi freq words 329 44.6% % of Long Sentences 1.7 Low Freq occurs 153 5% # of Low freq words 79 10.7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inserts/Side bars Features Simple Plot Unusual use of vocabulary Topics Water Environment Ocean *Fictional Ideas/Charac *Habitats/Environments *Global Issues Low Frequency Words accidentally adrianna cascade cheval coral coral's credible exploring founder's gross grotto harbor harbor's imaginary instruction instructions invitation jewelry kittentail leondra's lighter luckily meadow mermicorn mermicorns motioned mouthful nature necklace neighborhood neighbors oblem pawed pelicans perfume properly prove purrmaids recycle recycled recycling reef rely reserve responsibility reusable reuse scallop scavenger schedule schoolyard science scowled scrunched seadragon seasick shipwreck shrugged siren sirena sitively source spied spiky squealed starfish sunken sushi swallowed tangled taylor teresting tortoiseshell umiko unexpected unicorn waterslide whined yelped