Title - The Adventures of Vin Fiz Author: Cussler, Clive Publisher: Philomel Books Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Ten-year-old twins Lacey and Casey Nicefolk have always wanted to fly, but kids can't fly... or can they? They can if they know the mysterious Sucoh Sucop, a man who claims to have an enchanted box that can transform any toy into the real thing! Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1822 4.7 870 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 50 Total # of Words 2752 # of Different Words 937 Ave Word/.Sent 14 Hi Freq occurs 1939 70.5% # of Hi freq words 393 41.9% % of Long Sentences 24.5 Low Freq occurs 251 9.1% # of Low freq words 184 19.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Captions Concept: Fanciful Chapters Sequence of Events: Chronological Features Character traits Integral Setting - Historical Simple Plot Difficult names Topics Travel/Traveling Magic Danger Airplanes Helping *Fictional Ideas/Charac Low Frequency Words acre acreage ancestor arched aromas artichoke artichokes basset bedsheets bonus brayed buyers clinking cloudless conclusion contents cooperated courtesy cupolas curiosity curious dedication designed despite diligently eared edible enclosed engineers entertaining excelled exotic exploring extraordinary eyed fabulous fanciful farm's fascinating floopy foghorn gaunt generations generator giggling ginseng glimmered gourmet grove halt harvest harvested haunches headlights herb herbs hexed highwayman hocus honest idiosyncrasy ima inhaled intensity interior irritation kindly laboring lacey's lanterns lever licorice liking logical longed loping marigolds mathematics measured mechanical melodious mingling model monterey mortgage motorized movements mysterious mystical neighbors newcomer newly nicefolk nicefolk's nicefolks nonidentical obvious oddly outthought overalls overly pacific packaged padlock pajaro paraphernalia passengers peculiar peered perched periwinkle phenomenon pocus posed preferred privacy profit profitable protruding puzzling quaint quizzically raising recipes recognize reeked refuse respect restaurants resume rough sauce savory scarecrow scent scrumptious season seldom shimmered shipping shone shower shrugging skies soul sowed sparkling spearmint spices straddled straightened stranger's sucoh sucop sucop's surrounded surrounding swirled tarpaulin thistle threat throughout tilted tingle tooted traits triumphantly typical unable unexplainable valued vane varieties vibrations wandering whipping whirled whistles wired wisp witted wondrous workbench workday workshop