Title - Vampire Academy Author: Mead, Richelle Publisher: Penguin Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The plot contains profanity and sexual situations. Two years after running away, Lissa and Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where one focuses on mastering magic and the other on physical training. Book #1 Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 3480 7+ 1100 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 37 Total # of Words 3854 # of Different Words 1198 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 2899 75.2% # of Hi freq words 480 40.1% % of Long Sentences 13.4 Low Freq occurs 343 8.9% # of Low freq words 285 23.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Abstract/Difficult Chapters Prior Knowledge: Familiarity Sequence of Events: Mostly chronological Mature concepts: Mature thinking required with many distinctly unusual experiences Features Character traits Complex Problem/Solution Clear cause/effect Complex plot Mood/tone First Person Difficult names Topics Danger Princes/Princesses Good/Evil Romance *Fictional Ideas/Charac Vampires Low Frequency Words ability aboard absentmindedly academic academy academy's accent administrative adoringly aisle angle anticipation anxiety apparently appreciation appropriately architecture baring bastard belikov berth bitching borrow bracing calming campus campuses chemicals chucked churchlike circumstances college commandos compulsion comrade concern concrete consciousness contrasted coordination crouch cruel curiously decaying defiantly despised dhampir dhampirs disappearing discernible disoriented disorienting dizziness dormitories dorms dragomir dreamily duster effect effects effectual elaborate embarrassed emotions enclosed endorphin eradicating exposing extensively eyed fascist features fiercely figures footing frailty frantic freedom fully further fury gazed gesture glazed gothic graceful gradually grimace grimaced gripped guardian guy's halt hathaway hatred haughty headmistress height heightened heroes heroines hesitate hesitated hopelessly hotness housemate's housemates hunkering ignore imagined immediate impression inseparable instinct intended interfered invasion involved irrelevant issue jagged jeans jeremy jeremy's kindergarten kirova latter leapt legends lessened levelly lighting lightly lingered links liss lissa's lungs magical manage maneuver mentioned metabolizing miracle mismatched molnija moments montana moroi movement nauseating neared nightmare nightstand notwithstanding novice obligingly obstacle occurred oddly offensive olds operate opposite ounce outclassed outnumbered overgrown paired paler panicked parachutes parted particular particularly paused peer pleasure pointedly pointless portland posed precisely primary privacy private process protests proved psychic pulsed pure pursuers pursuing quad quadrangle rabid reasonable reasoning recklessly recklessness refined refrigerator refused regarded regretfully relatively researched resembled residential resignation resistance respond responded restrained retrieve revealing righteous ringed rosemarie rummaging sagged saliva secondary sedate seize senior sensation sensed sensing separated shoving shrugged silhouettes similar somewhat sprawling spree steadied strands streetlight strigoi studied suffocating suntan supposing surge survival susceptible swallowed swept symbol symbols tension thrall thrashing threatening tilted tradition twenties twitching typical unable understanding unhesitatingly unreadable unseasonably upright vampiric vasilisa veins verge verified vladimir's wallets wards warily warned weakness whimpers widened willpower worthy wrapping wrought younger