Title - The Not So Jolly Roger Author: Scieszka, Jon Publisher: Puffin Unicorn Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre It's the Time Warp Trio to the rescue! Only this time they are rescuing their own adventure-loving hides. Blackbeard, the meanest, ugliest pirate ever, has our accidental time travelers cornered. Can Fred, Sam, and Joe find The Book in time—or will they become shark munchies? Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1021 3.7 740 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 44 Total # of Words 3116 # of Different Words 837 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 2232 71.6% # of Hi freq words 354 42.3% % of Long Sentences 4.8 Low Freq occurs 147 4.7% # of Low freq words 108 12.9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Chapters Features Integral Setting - Historical Simple Plot First Person Topics Time *History Pirates Magic Danger Low Frequency Words aboard adventures anchor bristled buries bury castaways craziest crusoes curled cutlass cutlasses damnation dickory disappearing disney doubloon drunken eenie einstein executed goofing gull gulped hades halt har haunted hellfire hickory hindmost historical hocus hollers horribly impress itched knight knights laddies level license liner lowering lugging magician magicians mast meenie midair monstrous moustache muttered mynie nastiest nowhere numb otherwise ourselves paces pistol pistols pockets pocus prisoners purpose ragged rascals refused reload revenge robinson selves seventy sherlock shipwrecked shower slung snatched soul squinted staggered stiffs strands swear sweat swig swirl swirled tot towering transported travelled truly uglier ugliest unloaded walt warn warper weakly whirled wisps wobbly worth wrinkled yer