Title - Rascal Author: North, Sterling Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Rascal is only a baby when young Sterling brings him home. He and the mischievous raccoon are best friends for a perfect year of adventure—until the spring day when everything suddenly changes. Entertain Historical Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 3433 7+ 1100 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 62 Total # of Words 3860 # of Different Words 1321 Ave Word/.Sent 15 Hi Freq occurs 2750 71.2% # of Hi freq words 500 37.9% % of Long Sentences 33.9 Low Freq occurs 448 11.6% # of Low freq words 371 28.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Chapters Headings Features Character traits Character development Complex character relationships Complex Problem/Solution Clear cause/effect Simple Plot First Person Dialect/Accents Topics *Animals Animals: Forest Pets Responsibility Low Frequency Words abused accent accommodation additional adjoined advantages affectionate allowances amazingly amiably anemones anthropologist artillery assumed awakening badgered balefully bargain bass belfry biologist blessed bough brewing casting cautiously cemented ceremony challenged choir chorus chubs companion competent complicated concerned concerning confident constantly convenient convincing coons corduroy courteously crawdads crescent critically curiosity currently deacons decaying delaney delegation delicacies delicious dependence despite dialect dignified disgrace dismay disturbed doubt drooled drooling drowsing earnest eastern ecstasy edges educated eerie elegance enthusiasm eventually evicting eviction exceptionally executed expedition faction fascinated fashion fault fitted flowering flush fortune foxfire frantically frenzy funerals furious furry further generations german ghostly glossy goot gracious gradually groves guardian guarding hacking handsome hasenpfeffer hazel headlong hereditary herschel hesitation hickory hollow hooton horizon housewives immediately improvement inadvisable indefinitely indignant injustices inquiring instance instinctively insulted intelligent intruder ishkabibble iss issue jackknife jeopardy kegs kildeer knives knocking knowing labor laborious lair language lawns leisurely lending lilies limb linguist litters looted loyally luminescent maneuver marriage marsh marshy marveled meadows meantime meanwhile meekly merciful merely methodically methodist methodists milking minnesota minnow minnows mischief miserable moisture moment's moonlight moonrise mournful mournfully mowing muscled muskrat naked naturally nature neighborhood nestled noble northern norwegian novel nuzzled obeyed objects occasional occupant odors orchard outraged overwhelmed ownership pamper parishioners parlor parsonage particular particularly partners pastries peered peering perpetually personality phosphorescent phrase pickerel plainly plaintive pleasant pleasure pleasures poet portion postgraduate postpone postponing precisely predictably prehensile presented previous prisoner's process productive property protective prove psychologist published quavering quitter racked raging raising rascal reacted reasons recent render research resort responsibility responsible restless retiring reverend reward ringtailed romped saint saloonkeeper satisfaction satisfied satisfying saucer scented scramble scrambling screech scruff seasonal seemingly seized seldom semicircle sensitive sermon service services seventy shallow shallows shameful shelves shiners shinnied shinnies shortened signature silvering siree skirted slashing slender sloshed snarling somewhat sorrow sought sounding spirea stairway stance sterling substituted suits sunder sunderland sunderland's surrounding surveying swamp swearing swedish swiftly swiftness swiped tangle tangled tasseled taunted technique terrier terrifying theo theological thoroughly tormentor tour trait tremolo trill trundled underfur unimportant unretractable unweaned upward utter vaguely varmints vell verdammte vere victorian vineyard violence violets virtual virtues vot wandering wayfarers weighed wentworth's whimpered whimpering whined whipping whittling winnebago wisdom witless woodchuck woodchucks wounding woven wowser yearling yelped