Title - The Boston Coffee Party Author: Rappaport, Doreen Publisher: HarperCollins Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre During the Revolutionary War, two young sisters help a group of Boston women get coffee from a greedy merchant. Entertain Historical Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 419 2.5 610 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 19 Total # of Words 1257 # of Different Words 340 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 716 57% # of Hi freq words 140 41.2% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 25 2% # of Low freq words 12 3.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Integral Setting - Historical Topics Shopping *History Cooking Markets Sewing War Fair play/Fairness Food Low Frequency Words cobblestone forbes greedier harbor homans ladies milking scissors sewed shillings soldier warehouse