Title - The Good Good Pig Author: Montgomery, Sy Publisher: Ballantine Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre A naturalist who spent months at a time living on her own among wild creatures in remote jungles, Sy Montgomery had always felt more comfortable with animals than with people. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2977 6.9 1070 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 65 Total # of Words 3538 # of Different Words 1232 Ave Word/.Sent 16 Hi Freq occurs 2442 69% # of Hi freq words 454 36.9% % of Long Sentences 38.5 Low Freq occurs 408 11.5% # of Low freq words 343 27.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Abstract/Complex Environmental Chapters Sequence of Events: Chronological Features Character traits Simple Plot First Person Topics *Animals Low Frequency Words absence academy accosted acres adjusting admirable affinity agents agricultural amok antiques apparently apt arkansas arkload assure assured attendance auspicious bakeries bankrolled bataan behemoth benign benignly beset birute blessed blissful boar boars breeder cafeterias canines caretakers cavernous chairlift challenging charged clapboard cockatiel commercial conducted conductor constantly convinced cousins crawling crimson decades decapite dedicated deemed destined dimensions disappearing disease disheveled dismay dismembered dispatch dispatched distinguished dna dosed drawn drenched effortlessly embrace emus endearing ensured erysipelas estate evidence evolutionarily exponent expressive extraordinarily extremely fabulous facilitate fascinated fault fellow fenced fencing feral ferrets fewer flannel flex flexible flown fortunetellers fossey founder framing frantic fraying freelance frequent fringed furry galdikas general generally generously glamorous glance goodall gracefully grocery growth gruesomely grunt grunting handsome hastily hayed healthy heeled helpless herd heroines hippie honor honors hoofed hooves horror hospice idealistic ideals idyllic immediately improbably incarnation income insanity inspection intelligent intending interior intestinal iselin jaguar japanese jokingly kneecap landers landlords lardy largely lash laundry level lexa lilacs literally litters lovebirds machinery macoute magazines manages manure maples marriage massive maturity mayonnaise medicine mentioned merit micropigs mince miniature miniatures mortgage musicologist national natured necessitating neglected neighbor's neighborhood neighbors nursing nynh occasional occasionally orangutan organic original orphaned outgrow outlets overgrown overpopulate painfully parasites parentage paris particularly pasture peace peapack peer perch personalized piglet piglets pigsty piped population porcine possum's potbellied potbelly praised precious predators predicament preservation president previous primatologists prison produce productivity proposition prove public python quantities quintessential radiant raising razor reasoned reasons recall recalls refreshed refused related relative relatively relished renamed renters research researching residence resisted resourceful response rhinopneumonitis rockwell rosella rotting runt rwanda scent schedules season seemingly seldom selected shaggy shamans shovel siding slaughter slender sodden soothe soul soulful southeast southern sow sow's sprawled squealing stall stalled stalls stickily stock strop subaru sugaring supine surely survive survived sweethearts swine tanzania teats terrier thoreau threat threatened tibetan tonton tortured toting touted trample tribute truckload twinkies uncountable understandably unfinished unknown unperturbed unsupervised uplifting urged utter various vaster vegetarian viciously vietnam vietnamese vogel wander wanes weighed woken wondrous wooded woodstove wormer wrenching writer writers zaire