Title - The Magic Half Author: Barrows, Annie Publisher: Bloomsbury Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Miri is the non-twin child in a family with two sets of them -- older brothers and younger sisters. Without meaning to, she has found a way to travel back in time to 1935 where she discovers Molly, a girl her own age very much in need of a loving family. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2116 5.1 930 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 39 Total # of Words 3803 # of Different Words 1124 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 2807 73.8% # of Hi freq words 477 42.4% % of Long Sentences 12.4 Low Freq occurs 214 5.6% # of Low freq words 178 15.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support 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 Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concept: Fanciful Chapters Sequence of Events: Several shifts in time Features Complex Problem/Solution Simple Plot Topics Time Magic *Fictional Ideas/Charac *Family & Friends Low Frequency Words absolutely acceptable admiring aggravated announced appreciate audience awakened babbled blowzy blur brawl burrowing bury c'mere capacity circular cloaked clocked conference contemplated craftily curled cursed cushions dainty decagon destruction disappearing disorganized distinctive doubtfully edged embarrassed enthusiasm excitedly expanse eyed fairies fashioned fragment frantically furious furnace fury gardening gazebo gazing genius geothermal giggling glinted gloomily gossamer grandeur guise hankies headfirst hollered horribly horrified horror hospitality hurled imaginative imagining imbed impressed instance instantly interrupted jeweled jewels jutted lacy lili littered madly mayhem menace mentioned miri miri's miriam mocking modest moonlight morons mounds mysterious naked nectar nowhere objected octagon opal orchard outline overgrown pathetic pause paused peace peculiar peered pictured pleading pleasantly property pursue raymond rectangle reeds reflection resumed rotting ruffled rustled saggy satisfaction scissors scrabbling scrubby secluded separated shelves shimmering shone shovel shoves shrill sierra silvery skylight solitude sprang sprawling squinted staircase stanton startled statistics sternly stiffly strands strangely streaked stubborn stung sturdy surrounding sweat swirled swivel swollen syllabus tangle terrified thickening threshold thundered tidy tinted tormentors urgent vigorously villagers vision wafted wandered weird whatcha whisper wincing wolfish wolfishly yanked younger