Title - The Mommy Exchange Author: Hest, Amy Publisher: Bradbury Press Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre After concluding that each other's home life is more appealing than their own, two young friends decide to swap homes and mothers. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 709 3.1 680 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 32 Total # of Words 1717 # of Different Words 535 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 1211 70.5% # of Hi freq words 220 41.1% % of Long Sentences 15.4 Low Freq occurs 46 2.7% # of Low freq words 33 6.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Character traits Character development Simple Plot First Person Topics Mothers Cooking Pregnancy Babies Differences Family *Family & Friends Noises Pasta/Noodles Relationships Low Frequency Words announces chaos curls grizzly headphones holler knuckle koalas motorcycles ordinary ought overnight parmesan pasty piped positive private sailboat sauce scrapbook screech sideways siren sirens stringy superman swap tearing thoughtful typewriter wears weird whos