Title - The Devil's Arithmetic Author: Yolen, Jane Publisher: Puffin Unicorn Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Deals with the horrors of Nazi concentration camps. Hannah thinks tonight's Passover Seder will be the same as always. Little does she know that this year she will be mysteriously transported into the past where only she knows the horrors that await. Persuade Historical Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2929 6.8 1060 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 51 Total # of Words 3303 # of Different Words 981 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 2428 73.5% # of Hi freq words 418 42.6% % of Long Sentences 13.6 Low Freq occurs 201 6.1% # of Low freq words 165 16.8% 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 Chapters Prior Knowledge: Familiarity Sequence of Events: Mostly chronological Mature Concepts: With some uncommon experiences Features Character traits Character development Integral Setting Complex plot Parallel plots Difficult names Foreign words Topics Time Cultures *History Customs War Foreign Country Prejudice Low Frequency Words afikoman announced annoyed attentions auschwitz beanies bris cloying colonel compensation concentration contents cordwood corpses cough cousins cuffed dachau dayenu deliberately digit distorted dreading easter effects elevator embarrassed embarrassing embroidered encircling erb erbs escaping eventually exodus explanations expressions eyed faraway fascinated fashioned fiercely flickering flushed forgiven frequently gatherings glared grahame grateful gratefully gruesome guffawed guilt guilty guttural haggadah hannahleh hebrew helplessly herb hero's horseradish incident injured injustice innocence interrupted issues knit knowing kosher laughter lectures lightly locusts magical malach matzoh memorized miniature mischief mortified mouthed murmured musical muttered nazi nazis ninth occasionally opposite ordinary overheated overstuffed particular particularly passover patience pause photograph plague plagues plunged pounced prayers preferred project's pronouncing punctuation rabbi readings reasonable recite reciting relatives repetitive restlessly restored rochelle romance rosemary rosemary's rousing sake satisfied scarcely scarf seder shared shrugged shushed signaled signaling smoothed smoothly steerage strangely streaked survivors suspected sympathy teaspoons tension terribly tradition translation uncomprehendingly uncover universe unleavened urging volunteered watered whine whisper wisps withstand yahrzeit yarmulke yaynu yiddish younger youngest zombies