Title - Sunset of the Sabertooth Author: Osborne, Mary Pope Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The Ice Age is very cool…for two kids in bathing suits! Jack and Annie nearly freeze when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the time of cave people and woolly mammoths. But nothing can stop them from having another wild adventure—not even a saber-toothed tiger! Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1036 3.7 750 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 25 Total # of Words 3073 # of Different Words 761 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 2228 72.5% # of Hi freq words 346 45.5% % of Long Sentences 1 Low Freq occurs 92 3% # of Low freq words 61 8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Concept: Fanciful Table of Contents Chapters Headings Features Integral Setting - Historical Simple Plot Topics Time Travel/Traveling *History Searching/Hunting Danger *Animals Tigers Low Frequency Words ancestors bison borrow breathed caption cavern crouching echoed egyptian fibers fiercer fiercest figures flickering flint furry gathering gooey grizzlies grove haunting heavier helpless hollow hollowed hurl instruments jagged journeys knights knives ledge librarian magical magnons mammoth mammoths mango mended mission moonstone musical mysterious panic patches peanut's peered pennsylvania prehistoric prologue reindeer sabertooth sorcerer suits supermarkets swirled that'll wick windswept woolly yowl