Title - The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Author: Brashares, Ann Publisher: Delacorte Press Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre During their first summer apart, four teenage girls, best friends since earliest childhood, stay in touch through a shared pair of secondhand jeans that magically adapts to each of their figures and affects their attitudes to their summer experiences. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2227 5.3 930 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 47 Total # of Words 3378 # of Different Words 1039 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 2387 70.7% # of Hi freq words 414 39.8% % of Long Sentences 9.7 Low Freq occurs 236 7% # of Low freq words 195 18.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Sequence of Events: Chronological Mature concepts: With common experiences or clear fantasy Features Character traits Character development Complex character relationships Parallel plots Mood/tone Dialect/Accents Topics Travel/Traveling Clothes Letters (mail) Friendship *Family & Friends Low Frequency Words absently according adventures aerobics aggressively alter ambitious analysis antiprom appreciation appreciator aspersions baffled benevolently bethesda bloomingdale's blur breasts cargo carpeted casting challenge challenging changeable coincidence competing complicated compliment conditioned confirmed debutante defensively delicately demonic deteriorated dilapidated disappointments disbanded dramatically eastern effect elective elementary embrace envelopes essential eventually flight's flushed fragile gazed gilda's glance glancing glared gonna gracefully grilling handing hoarse honest hunker inattention income indigo inny instant instructor's insult intimately jeans jocks kaligaris khakis launching lavender lena lena's lungs magical marriage maryland mattered mediterranean mentioning mindlessness minimum miraculously naturally navy neurotic noble nonsensical nowadays obvious offense olds omen oversized owes particularly pep pike practically pregnant previous private proclaimed psychological public puerto quarrel radical reasonably reassigned rebel reflexively requirements requires revealed revealing reverently rican rockville rockwood roughly routines sake sandwiched scenic scientifically secondhand separate septembers seriously shapeless shrugged snatched social socialist sophomore specific spending splayed sprouting squirm strand structured studied stunning sullenly surprisingly swollen sympathy tagging taunted theme theoretically thrusting tibby's timbers tink tragedy transforming transitions troublemaking truly twilight unassuming unbuttoned unconditional underwear unfolded unzipped urged vintage wage waistband wallman's wallow wantonly ward warily washable wavelets weird welling winced wincing witnessed workshop wrist yearned younger