Title - The Last Firehawk Author: Charman, Katrina Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre In book 5 of this fantasy series, the magical Ember Stone is almost complete! There is only one piece left to find. But Thorn's darkness is spreading faster than ever! Tag, Skyla, and Blaze must cross the dangerous Shadowlands to find the last piece. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 997 3.6 740 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 31 Total # of Words 3088 # of Different Words 704 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 2053 66.5% # of Hi freq words 303 43% % of Long Sentences 2.5 Low Freq occurs 117 3.8% # of Low freq words 58 8.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Concept: Fanciful Table of Contents Chapters Features Integral Setting - Historical Simple Plot Difficult names Topics Spiders Searching/Hunting Danger Wolves Good/Evil *Fictional Ideas/Charac Low Frequency Words arching blur circling crag defeating ember eyed fault firehawk firehawks firepower flown furry grey gripped guarded gulped hollow hove legged locusts lowered lullaby magical monty's nowhere peered peering perodia pricked prickle prickly prisoners scarier shadowlands skyla skyla's slingshot snarled soared spies squawks squinted tag's thornbush thornbushes thorny trudged twitching tying unable unfolded valor warn warned weapons whiz worth