Title - The Girl Who Drank The Moon Author: Barnhill, Kelly Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the Forest, Xan, is kind. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon Entertain Fables RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2244 5.4 940 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 68 Total # of Words 3069 # of Different Words 1040 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 2200 71.7% # of Hi freq words 406 39% % of Long Sentences 13 Low Freq occurs 314 10.2% # of Low freq words 244 23.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Concept: Fanciful Chapters Headings Prior Knowledge: Basic understanding. Features Integral Setting Complex plot Difficult names Topics Witches Monsters Dragons Good/Evil *Fictional Ideas/Charac Low Frequency Words accidentally accounted addition adjusted affixed angles annoyance antain antain's array artful astonishing bereavement birthmark borderline bracing breast bulbous calmed ceremony cheeked cinched citizens clarified compassion compliant concern contemplation convenient cough council craggy crescent crinkly curls curse cursed dampening dealt debris decade decrepit deepened despite disliked doglike doubt ease echoed edged efficient elder elders ember encouraged enmagics ensuring enthusiasm facade fatigue fellow fidgeting fidgety flowering fondness fortunately frightening fumed furrowed future general generations geysers gherland gherland's glared gnarled grief gritted guttural handmaidens harvested haze hobbled hollered hollow hoping impatience implacable inexplicable insists instantly instinctively insufferable insufferably intense inwardly keen kindly kindness kingdom knowing kohl liar livelihoods looped lore luminous lunatic's magical maintained medicinal melancholy misguided moments mourned murmured muster navigable neighbors nephew notions nourishing noxious numb numbing occasion occasional openmouthed orchards ought overly pace palms parallel particular pathetic patient perplexed phlegm plaits pleasure plodding poisonous pomp populace possession possessions precedent presumably procession protectorate protectorate's provided purpose quickened rafters ranged recently reeds resembling resisted respond restlessly resurface retreat revolting ridiculous rosy rouge route rubbish ruthless sacrifice saddened sagging sandwiched scowl settling sheathed shirkers shudder similar sinkhole sirs skeptical slung slurped sober solemn somber soul spat spine squat staff stature striding subdued submerged surely surrounded swale swamp sweetheart swirled swollen swords tempered terribly testament theory throughout tilted traders tramped transferred transported treacherous trifled trodden uncomfortable uncomfortably unencumbered unfortunate unique unto urge utterly visibly wandered weakness weighed whimper whimpered whimpering wobbles woody wrinkling writhing xan yoke youngest zirin