Title - Rules of the Road Author: Bauer, Joan Publisher: G.P.Putnam's Sons Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Jenna is the kind of girl most likely to stand out in the crowd for all the wrong reasons. But that doesn't stop Madeline Gladstone, the president of Gladstone's Shoes' 176 outlets in 37 states, from hiring Jenna to drive her cross-country in a last-ditch effort to stop Elden Gladstone from taking over his mother's company. Entertain Adventure RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2812 6.5 1030 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 53 Total # of Words 4457 # of Different Words 1341 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 3415 76.6% # of Hi freq words 575 42.9% % of Long Sentences 18.9 Low Freq occurs 301 6.8% # of Low freq words 256 19.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Chapters Sequence of Events: Chronological Mature Concepts: With some uncommon experiences Features Character traits Character development Complex Problem/Solution Parallel plots First Person Topics Challenges Age/Aging Courage *Careers *Human Body & Health *Feelings, Behaviors Alcohol/Alcoholic Responsibility Low Frequency Words accomplished adolescence alcoholics alcoholism alignment alternative aluminum announced anon appeal appointment appreciate article auburn ballet beige belched blubbered boller brunt calmly certificate cheekbones classic clocking comb commission compression concentrate corporate customers dangling decals density disease disgraces disney diverticulitis drawl drunken dwindle earrings eisenhower elevated emergency energize erect essays eureka exhausted exhuming expressway eyeball eyed fashion fault features fidgeted flung footwear frankenbaum frankenstein freed freedom freshman frizzed furry gage genes glued gorgeous gotta gradually grained gratefully grungier guilt guilty gulp hailed handing handling headline height helium honor ignore illinois imitation independent infected irritated jeans jus keen kidney knelt knowing labels lancing leathers leisure lemmy's lengthwise license lightly lining locusts lumbered ma'am madhouse magazines manure matchbook mature medically medication memories mention mentioned merchandise mere midsole minus mirrors model moments moron mortified motioned movement mozzarella mundy's murray murray's naturally navy nestled nikes nix occasion official offspring okey ooze oozing ourselves outlets outnumbered overdrive panicked passport patching patent patient patients pavement penalize percent perfume personal personalities personality petrified pitiful plaid plastered poisonous possession pouncing precisely president priced prized professional proven public purse putty recall register respect responsibility retailer's retiring rhythm rifling rigidly romance s'waiting salesman sandals schedule scum shallowness sheepdog shelves shielding shove shoved shrug siamese siding sizzled sliding slump social soles sophomore spat speech spending stairway stint stitching stopwatch strands studied suction supremely surplus swan swarms swirled symbol texture therapist toasters toddler torture traction trapeze trauma tri twirling underwear vacuum visa vision wabash wafting wallet warned watcha waxhide waxhides weighed women's wonders worth yippy ylm younger youngest zillionth