Title - The Last Kids on Earth and the Forbidden Fortress Author: Brallier, Max Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The evil Thrull, alongside a vile new villain, is carrying out a sinister plan. Jack, Quint, June and Dirk must make their own plans to infiltrate the stronghold before Thrull gets any closer to completing the mysterious Tower, a structure that could ultimately spell doom for this dimension. Entertain Science Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2461 5.7 970 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 42 Total # of Words 3014 # of Different Words 1033 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 2078 68.9% # of Hi freq words 370 35.8% % of Long Sentences 11.8 Low Freq occurs 309 10.3% # of Low freq words 238 23% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Speech Bubbles Unconventional format Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Captions Inserts/Side bars Concept: Fanciful Mature Concepts: With some uncommon experiences Features Integral Setting Complex plot Difficult names Unusual use of vocabulary Topics Monsters Danger Fighting *Fictional Ideas/Charac Low Frequency Words abandoned abduct aboard activated actual agent alas angles apparently appendage apprenticeship architect avalanche badness basically bezzoch billboard billboard's boulder bummed c'mon campaign campaigning carapace cartoonish casually centipede chaotic chasing chums clamping community concrete confession conjurer conscience constructed controlled cosmic courage creature's crevice decision defeating derby destruct destruction destructor dimensional drooler elevated emergency ensnares entangled escaped essential eternal eventually evolving excess fault foliage fortress fortress's fused ghazt ghazt's gnawing gonna gooey gotta grinding grunting gulp hand's hijacked hoists horrified hulking hunkered hurtling illusion imagining impulsive info instant instantly intrude jagged joint joints kidney kinda knit knocking lash lashing lasso level lever locations loopy louisville lousy lungs mallusk malusk malusque manage maneuver maple massive material melee messes millennium missiles mistimed moments monster's monstrous mortifying muffled muscly mutter mysterious nab nonchalant ooze operations optical original otherworldly ourselves outta outward paralyzed paranoid perched peril permission perpetually physically pledged plummeting pondering practically prying pulsing pure raises recommend repetitive resident ridiculous roadside roughly rover rustier scenery scramble sentries servants shrug skaelka skaelka's skeletor sledge slicer slicer's sliding snarling solar sorta souvenir specializes spies spike spine splorchers splotcher splotchers splotchy sprawled staggers stakeout stammer strands stupidity suggestions surveillance swears swig swirling sword syrup talons tangling tearing teleported tendril tentacle thrall thrull thrull's thrusts thudding tinier topple tornado trajectory translates twang tylenol undercover underway unknowable unleash unnatural unwittingly upward vamoosed vision volunteers wanna warlord wayward weird weirdness whipped whirlwind wield would've wrist yanked yursl zombie zombies