Title - Steal Away Home Author: Ruby, Lois Publisher: Aladdin Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre A Kansas family finds a skeleton in a secret room and learns their house was a station on the Underground Railroad. Entertain Mystery RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2428 5.7 960 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 43 Total # of Words 4452 # of Different Words 1334 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 3321 74.6% # of Hi freq words 566 42.4% % of Long Sentences 13.2 Low Freq occurs 345 7.7% # of Low freq words 276 20.7% 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 Table of Contents Chapters Features Character traits Integral Setting - Historical Parallel plots Topics Time *History Learning Hiding Freedom African Americans Slavery Helping *Global Issues Low Frequency Words abandoned absorbed accountant actual anatomy anchorage angles annals announced anthropologist anthropology anything's ashy autopsy billowy biology blackest blonds bristly buff busied bustle calendar calmly cargo casually cavern cavity civilly closeout clunked compartment controlled cookstove coroner coroner's corpse cottonwood coyotes craning criminology cured curls curtain cushier dana's dawdled degrees delicate devising dictating disappointed disconnected dissected documents domestic doubt douglas educated eerie elbowed enthusiasm equipment eternity eveready examination fabric fingered fingerprinters fleicher fleur flung forensic fowl frantic freckles fugitives further gamey gaping gash geez glare gooseberry gorgeous gory government grinding harbor hardwood headquarters hearty hesitation hilarious historian historical homicide honestly horrendously hospitable hustle hygienic identifying ids impenetrable importance intact intense intriguing introduced intruders investigation investigations issuing jackrabbit jeremy jimcrack jittery jollier jumper karate knickknack ladles lantern laser lawrence leathery librarian lifetimes ligaments lis liver lodged loosely lovingly luxury ma'am macon macons maneuver mangy marker maroon materials meats merits merrily morgue motioned mournfully murder murky musty muttered mysterious nailing negroes neighbor nineteenth observe opposite oyster panty parlor partner paused pawed peace peephole peer peered penalty photographer pinpoint plank policemen positively prairie preliminary preserved previous processing public punir quakers recognized redheaded redheads refinishing register responsibility revolver ridden ringed robinson romantic rubble runaway runaways rustling sandals sanitary scent scheme sciences scotland scrambled sealing servants seventy shabbiest shavings skeletal smell's snapdragons sockets somberly soul spaniel spats specimens spongy squatted startled stiffly stiffs straddling stretcher stringy swatch swished swoon swooned syrup tangy tenderly tennessee terrific terrors theater thee'd thee's theories thoreau thuey topeka tornado trampled tromped trough tuft turkeys typical ugliest unbelievable unfinished unmistakable unsolved vietnamese vision wall's weavers where'd whistled whites whittled who'd wisps witticisms worth wyles y'all yank yer yes'm zinnias