Title - The Wish Giver Author: Brittain, Bill Publisher: HarperCollins Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre When a strange little man comes to the Coven Tree Church Social promising he can give people exactly what they ask for, three young believers-in-magic each make a wish that comes true in the most unexpected way. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1646 4.5 850 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 2917 # of Different Words 969 Ave Word/.Sent 12 Hi Freq occurs 2104 72.1% # of Hi freq words 428 44.2% % of Long Sentences 15.2 Low Freq occurs 200 6.9% # of Low freq words 165 17% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concept: Fanciful Chapters Sequence of Events: Mostly chronological Features Character traits Clear cause/effect Simple Plot Alternating voice Topics Wishes Magic *Fictional Ideas/Charac Low Frequency Words abide abounded accurate admiring alas announced announcing appreciation awe bellering bespeak birch bodily booths bristled buzzard christened church's colonial consarn convinced courageous coven covens crick crowed cure curiosity curious curved customers decked derby disappearing dismal doubtfully downright drawn durned familiar fiddlesticks fiends fiercely foolishly footbridge frantic freckles frightening further general giddy glared glistened gob grant granted grasped gulped hind honesty hoping humbug hurl imaginative imagining imps incredible issue jailed jewelry knowed knowing knowledge lantern launching leland leland's lenora's lightly limits livelihood machinery magician meade mildew mortals mound movement mustache musty muttered nature nickname noticing nowhere obvious ought ourselves outsiders overalls peabody peaceful peevishly piped piper plaguing pleasure pockets possessed possibility privilege pupils purses quinn raffles ragged recognition recognized register reluctance respect reverend rewarded rowena salesman sampling satan's satisfied separate service sewn shanty sheriff shuffled siding singsong social somebody'd souls souvenir spattered spawn startled stewart stitching surroundings swallow swamps tarnation terwilliger thrust toting trials twilight universe utter variety villagers wandering warned wasps wealth who'd widowed worth