Title - The Celery Stalks at Midnight Author: Howe, James Publisher: Avon Camelot Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Bunnicula is missing! Chester is convinced all the world's vegetables are in danger of being drained of their life juices and turned into zombies. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1553 4.4 830 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 43 Total # of Words 3344 # of Different Words 980 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 2383 71.3% # of Hi freq words 395 40.3% % of Long Sentences 7.2 Low Freq occurs 194 5.8% # of Low freq words 174 17.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concept: Fanciful Chapters Headings Features Character traits Simple Plot Topics Fears *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words admiringly advantage advised alas amazement aroma aroused array asserted attentively awakened badgering beeg blurted calmly cellophane charged conceded concern concerned contentedly convinced cooped crashlanding crinkling curled cutie dangling delectable deprived disappearance disinterest domesticated doubt dracula eez elusive emanated enterprise enthusiastically evidence excitedly factly fellas fixture flecks foreshadow frantically furiously furrowed future garbled gazed ghostly gotcha grief grimaced halt hearken hearkening hesitated hideous hoping hypnotized identity impatiently informed inhabitants inquired interjected interpreter jeez junior laundry lighting lightly lingered linoleum liquid liquified lure madly maniacally meanwhile mildly miraculously moment's momentary murder muster muttered narrowly nostrils obedient obliged oddly ominously opportunity ordinary panic particularly pathetically patient peace possessed pounced presently quake quivering rawhide reassured recently reentered reflection refrigerator regard reluctantly resist responded restless rough rudely sake sauntered screech seamier seemingly sensible settling shared shortly shudder significant singular sizzling skidded skulked snoozing somewhat squawks stammered stillness strategy strayed straying sympathy tailend technology tempted terrific theories thrower toilet's transformed twitched unable undisturbed vain verge vigor vigorously warn weird what'd whimper whimpered whimpering whisked whisking whisper who'd widened woefully yanked yawn