Title - Trophy Kid Author: Atinsky, Steve Publisher: Delacorte Press Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Since his much-publicized adoption at age three by American movie stars, thirteen-year-old Joe's carefully scripted public life has hidden the isolation he feels at home, but writing a book with a ghostwriter reveals much about his adoptive family. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2645 6.1 1000 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 66 Total # of Words 2844 # of Different Words 970 Ave Word/.Sent 12 Hi Freq occurs 2010 70.7% # of Hi freq words 382 39.4% % of Long Sentences 24 Low Freq occurs 256 9% # of Low freq words 210 21.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Chapters Sequence of Events: Chronological Mature Concepts: With some uncommon experiences Features Character traits Complex Problem/Solution Simple Plot First Person Topics *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors Adoption Parents Low Frequency Words academy accessories adoption adoptive ambassadors annoyed arabian artificial attentively attorney autobiography awareness bachelor basically bidding billionaires bros candidate celebrities chauffeured coincidence commitment congress conspiratorial contracts conversation couples cowriter credentials crusader curtains custody derek designer diminish disarmed disparaging distracting doin' dolan doubled dubrovnik duchess egalitarian embassy engineer equate excellent excitedly exhaustive exploiting explosions exterior facility familiar featured fewer florentine former fortune frankness gambling gardeners generosity germany government greta greta's guava handleman handsome hawaiian headlines hollandaise honeymoon hoping ignored ignoring image improve incredible industrialist innocent instantly intense intent international interrupt interrupted ipod isolated janine jeans jewelry lawrence lawyers league lens luster manhattan marriage medium mentioned midwest military minor minus minuscule missiles mobilization modernized moronic motion neighborhood newly nonchewer nonplan opinion organization orphanages orphans outdone paparazzi paparazzo paparazzo's parlor participate participating pause payment peering perched pitiful political politician politician's powell pried process produce producer production profile prosecuting prune publicity published publisher ranking reared recite refugee reiss relatives republic rescued resources responded resume revealing rulia sandals sauce saudi schedule security serbs serial seriously sewn shelling shrugged soldier sparkly spinach spooning spouses statement stations status stitches strewn studio sundress superstitious suspiciously sweetener sweetheart symbol tabloid teaspoon telethon terrific thailand throughout trophy underwear unicef upped upturned ushered valued wandered warner watermelon weinstein who'd windsor writer yugoslavia