Title - The Mouse and the Motorcycle Author: Cleary, Beverly Publisher: Harper Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre A reckless young mouse named Ralph makes friends with a boy in room 215 of the Mountain View Inn and discovers the joys of motorcycling. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1259 4.0 790 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 56 Total # of Words 3081 # of Different Words 898 Ave Word/.Sent 13 Hi Freq occurs 2181 70.8% # of Hi freq words 363 40.4% % of Long Sentences 23.4 Low Freq occurs 179 5.8% # of Low freq words 140 15.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Blend of written/oral Chapters Headings Features Character traits Integral Setting Topics *Transportation Mice Danger Kindness Friendship Motorcycles Low Frequency Words ached aches aching advised ambulance apt aspirin bellboy bellboys cedar chickadee chromium coasted college considerate content critically croquet curious curtain curved despair disappointed disliked dissolved dreadful echoing emotion employees emptied exhaust exploring fashionable faucets fellows fender fleeting foothills gathering handlebar handlebars hearty hopeful horror impatient incinerator instant intact interrupt jauntily jumbled knothole lever license lightbulbs lobby luggage ma'am mallets manage medium model momentum motel motorcycles mousehole mufflers muscle muttered nearsighted occupy perplexed pierce plains pleasure plentiful poisoned pong positively pouch preferably prevented prison private properly quaint quivering ralph's realizing reckless regulars remorseful restful rumor rumpled rung sagged satisfied scrabbled scurried season sedan seized sensible service snoopy socket spite straighten suddenness switchboard tablet tabletop terrified terrifying threadbare tourist unable unexpected untidy upright utterly vacancy vacuum vain valuable venturing victor vroom washbasin washers wearily whirly whiskers whistled windowsill worrier wrapper zwieback