Title - The Problem Child Author: Buckley, Michael Publisher: Amulet Books Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The sisters Grimm come face to face with their parents' kidnappers, the mysterious organization of Everafters who call themselves The Scarlet Hand. One turns out to be the most famous fairy-tale character and another an unstoppable killer. Persuade Science Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2731 6.3 1020 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 49 Total # of Words 4320 # of Different Words 1285 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 3182 73.7% # of Hi freq words 517 40.2% % of Long Sentences 17.2 Low Freq occurs 313 7.2% # of Low freq words 244 19% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concept: Fanciful Mature Concepts: With some uncommon experiences Features Topics Good/Evil *Fictional Ideas/Charac Low Frequency Words abandoned abilities accompanied actual aging agony albeit amateur apparently approached arthritic assault bales barrier belched blubbery borrowed braying bristly brutal brute burp busily c'mon cabinet captor careening caseworker certifiable chugged cinders compassion confident controlled counselor creature's crimson cringed daphne dashboard debris demented deny descended descendents dingy disguise disguises disturbing documents drawers edging elementary emergency engulfed enveloped envied everafters excellent exhausted familiar ferocious ferryport fiery filing fixture flailing foster gaping gardeners gathering gazed giggling glittery gnashing gonna granting grimm groaning group's guiding guttural gymnast handprint handprints hinges hovered hulking hunched identities ignited immediately incredible inflated inhabitants insane insanity instinctively instructions interrupting jabberwocky jagged jutting kidnapped kidnapper kin kindling knocking knowing lashed leathery luckily lumbering lunatics magical marker massive mayhem minions mischief mischievous miserable misery mistress molten moments momentum money's monster's mortar mountainside mustache mysteriously narrowly nimble nimbly numerous obnoxious occasions onrush ordinary orphanage ourselves outcropping overflowing paradise particular peered pixies plaster playhouse powerless prehistoric prescriptions process progress protection protruding provided puck pucklike pure quirky ramping ramshackle ravings razor recreate refreshing rescuing residents respond responsibility roofers roughly rumpelstiltskin sabrina sabrina's saliva scaly scarlet scowled scrambled section sensed servants shield shielded shimmering shrill shrunk situation skidded smacked smoldering snarky snarled snatched soared soaring source spiky springboard sprout squealed stable staggered startled streaked surrounded swarm sword terror throes timber transformation transformed trickster truly twittered unable unbelievable unconscious uncover unfolded unfortunately unscrewing veronica vision waging walrus warmth warned weathered whimpered whipped whipping wilhelm worth wrapping wrinkled yapping younger zillion