Title - Valentine's Day from the Black Lagoon Author: Thaler, Mike Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Everyone has to make a card for Valentine's Day. Even worse Hubie has to give it to somebody in his class. Plus, he can't just draw whatever he likes. It has to be a pink heart or a cupid. Yuck! He'd rather eat worms. Hubie is just not ready to be his heart into this. Entertain Humor RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 879 3.4 720 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 21 Total # of Words 2126 # of Different Words 671 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 1481 69.7% # of Hi freq words 279 41.6% % of Long Sentences 0.3 Low Freq occurs 92 4.3% # of Low freq words 79 11.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Table of Contents Chapters Features Character development Simple Plot First Person Difficult names Present Tense Topics Gifts Love Friendship *Arts & Crafts Valentines Day *Holidays, Events, Cele Low Frequency Words absorbed announce appropriate balcony beamster blurt blurts bulging courtship creativity curls diaper divorce dora dringle embarrassment farkle flattered freedom giggling growth guitar guitars harpoon hart hearted heartfelt heartichokes heartmare hormones hubie hurled incredible injects jealous knights ladies librarian luckily major mantle massacre melons monstrous murmuring nightmare peer platter poems pouring pressure randy rejection replies research researching romance romaniac romantic rookie salesman scientist scissors situation socket squashes stillman swamp sweating that'll thumping tibet traitors trampoline troubadours unfortunately veins violets winking